[Sigia-l] Information-centered Design

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"Betsy Martens" wrote:

> "The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate,
> and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the
> momentarily important item is the same as that used in the days of
> square-rigged ships."

I beg to differ. That might have been the case in 1945, but a lot has since
happened. The sheer magnitude of information available in every imaginable
subject via the Internet to ordinary citizens is mind boggling. Just look at
the war being waged by the other Bush: GPS, 3D flythroughs of the terrain
from satellite photos, real-time battlefield analysis, night vision,
automatic cell phone scanning, etc. We generate information at an alarming
rate but to say that our tools to deal with them are lagging by orders of
magnitude is not correct. From medicine to war making our ability to thread
through the mountains of information is progressing at a respectable pace.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba