Attention, the Last Scarce Resource
Information became abundant and attention became the bottleneck. Whole industries now exist to mine it — and we hold the deed.
Amara OkaforJuly 6, 2026 · 1 min
Editor-at-Large, Culture
Amara studies cities, archives, and the quiet infrastructure of shared life. She has written from four continents about how public spaces teach us to think together, and how easily that lesson is unlearned.
Information became abundant and attention became the bottleneck. Whole industries now exist to mine it — and we hold the deed.
A city is not just where thinking happens. Its streets, libraries, and cafés are part of how a society thinks at all.