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
Art, cities, institutions — the shared inventions that make societies legible.
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.