The Name Is Not the Terrain (12 Feb 2004)

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The Name Is Not the Terrain (12 Feb 2004)
Imagine if all the professional groups with an interest in designing better information spaces for human and social use could put their voices together. Would the result be to push a better agenda for design, a sharing of the best ideas and models, or a Tower of Babel? I cannot answer that one definitively (though I can offer odds on the results!), but I am increasingly convinced that the marking of professional boundaries within which we will include IA and outside of which we will place the myriad related disciplines results too often in a narrowing of perspective that may serve a small group of protectionists but does little to advance our knowledge.

Article URL: http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Dec-03/dillon.html

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