Information Use
You create, publish, receive information that you never had
before. Social information, cooking-pot information. You
visualise it in ways you could never do before. You move it and
share it and enrich it and aggregate it and disaggregate it
using tools you could never have conceived before. And you do
all this with presence and location and attention and mobility.
You teach it and learn it and shape it and train it. You
cleanse it and repair it and fuse it and melt it. The it is
information.
Source
This is the reason information wants to be free, it's most useful
when it's free. Avoid lockins, adopt standards etc. Think beyond
the immediate.
All software is about
- publishing,
- search,
- fulfilment and
- conversation