Information overload and some ideas to fix it
_This essay is adapted from an internal white paper I wrote with the Microsoft Research team in 2013. I’ve removed sensitive references and added some new thinking and illustrations so the essence of the proposal could be shared publicly._
Customer attention is an increasingly scarce commodity with little being done to address notification fatigue. None of the current mobile or desktop operating systems are designed to adequately handle the exponential increase of real-time notifications coming in from social apps, recommendation services and intelligent personal assistants, let alone next-generation capabilities such as anticipatory search and the Internet of Things. Moving forward, notification-rich services will only succeed with the creation of a centralized, intelligent, and configurable notification management service.
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