I searched the RSS feeds from Google reader and found an interesting bit of information with a company press release that was able to find $20 million dollars in new funding for the network storage systems company. These systems will consolidate file servers and transfer data and quickly access data for several companies. This was a direct link to EIM. “The gap between how we access information and how the computer accesses it is at the heart of the revolution in knowledge.” (1). Order is an individual decision and with input from multiple people in a company, it makes sense to have a storage company take in the information and allow the user to abstract that information anyway they want it. Obviously they were hired to keep a natural order of the information in a sensible way so that the retrieval by the company is easier and understandable.In EIM the natural order of information is an individualistic idea as to the storage of the information, with the examples of Linnaeus and Dewey, shows that, as a system is successful for the type of data at the time, as progress continues digitally, we will always have evolving orders in which to put knowledge.
One day there will be no one stop location for stored data, only storage facilities of data to which each facility has a process that they believe to be the most sensible to retrieve data, natural. Do we as private citizens have any say when it comes to data storing? Unless we own or are employed by the company storing the data, how do we get input into what is important enough to save and what is not? Just a hunch, but there will probably also be an electronic storage shortage for data and information in the near future. That sounds like a good economic stimulus idea, electronic storage.
Weinberger, David. Everything is Miscellaneous, New York, Holt paperbacks 2007, chapter 5 p. 99
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