[Sigia-l] Information-centered Design

[Joe 10]

At 1:54 AM -0500 4/5/03, Listera wrote:
>"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.
>

Well, sure, but it *was* a nice quote :)

/J
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