An inforant on the state of information management today [ABSTRACT]
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By Mark Field

Abstract

At a time when there is more information than ever before, and production has outstripped storage, Mark Field questions the emergence of different belief systems around information management and the lack of interest is assigning keywords, and concludes that information is the wild frontier where explorers blunder about studiously ignoring each other's expeditions.

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At a time when there is more information than ever before, and production has outstripped storage, Mark Field questions the emergence of different belief systems around information management and the lack of interest is assigning keywords, and concludes that information is the wild frontier where explorers blunder about studiously ignoring each other's expeditions.

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In the context of the 21^st century, in which there is more information than ever before and production has  outstripped storage by 600 exabytes, almost separate belief systems have emerged  around information management: the existing separation of information as  technology and information as meaningful content, which is magnified by the  appearance of new information professional tribes. Information is the wild frontier,  the shopping mall and the industrial revolution, in which those tribes of  explorers blunder about, studiously ignoring each other's expeditions.

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