I still think about this every once in a while.

I think one could see as a long extension of a worldview that reality can be perceived through measurements, dating back to René descartes and others. Computers allowed for more and more measurements. The measurement paradigm helped with a lot of things, but there are things hard to measure yet very valuable to us. The beauty of a poem the love of friendship. Combine that with the unlucky circumstance that we created a reality in which pursuing growing resource consumption is considered to be unquestionably “normal”. But attention could be also seen as a resource …