Cities of Text: Some Notes
Cities of Text: Some Notes On Some Notes on Intranets, Knowledge Management And Urban Planning: "As scattered, disjunctively organized Web servers become unnavigable, search engine technology is purchased to pave over the islands of Webformation with search engine results. As search engine results themselves become unnavigable, meta-search engine technology, or "intelligent agent technology" is purchased, to make sense of the search engine output. And when these fail, other technologies appear, to remedy the shortcomings of the previous technology generation and introduce new dysfunctions into the environment. Layer upon layer of software: a stratigraphy of the failure of information technology."
# Jan 23, 2003