Authors:
Oliver Cox
Why are our information systems places where ideas go to die? Why do so few of us, and fewer organizations, gain any level of mastery over our documents, ideas, and data? Insights → Our computers and their software are not currently ideisomorphic: They do not make it natural to express human ideas. → In terms of cybernetics, they are not "good regulators," which is why so much human energy is crushed by computers. → Because of the feedback loop that exists between computers and ideas, the danger is that we will eventually think like machines at the expense…
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