love this comment

"I too have had the sense that much of the discussion in the IA/Design community was dangerously close to a conference of virgins talking about sex."

now that is a nicely formed fun thought (its probably at least somewhat accurate too).

imagine the same conferees gathering after each of them encountered the metaphorical equivalent of partnered orgasm :)

it implies something serious also: the world has yet to move under ia feet.

where was i? oh, yes...

busy elsewhere, i've not studied ia, but i have recently look at what i could find of it (this is both my apology and the disclaimer i wish to include).

it seems to me that ia can be said to be the study and (budding) practice of easing access to, and the use of, information.

it also seems as though ia has accepted the limits of foreseeable development in commonplace paradigms of technology and relatively untrained human ability.

fair and necessary enough where immediate marketplace needs support the inquiry, but those needs sustain, they do not, in and of themselves, envision.

i'd like to suggest that the proper boundaries of ia are not determined by marketplace needs.

that suggests that the boundaries of ia are determined by those of its natural elements: the content, relationships within, and the forms of information, and the adaptability of the human sensorium and physiology to integration with that information.

if that is so (and it certainly seems so to me) then the study and practice of easing access to, and the use of, information has hardly begun.

i do not doubt that specializations of human-information systems will develop; wonderment of what we may socially attain though sends me into mildly euphoric thought.

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