Long Term versus Evolutionary Thinking (Part 1 of 2)

Last week I attended the O’Reilly eTech conference.  The first night, Tim O’Reilly gave his annual Radar talk, in which he surveys the technology landscape and comments on upcoming and interesting trends. I have heard this Radar talk for years, via the IT Conversations podcast network, but this was the first time I’d seen it in person. O’Reilly always has challenging, thought-provoking things to say, and this year was no different.  He did, however, mention two emerging trends or patterns that I thought contradicted each other, and I want to specifically comment on those.

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Collaborative Information Seeking: Intent

Over on the FXPAL blog, Gene and I added the 2nd of a series of posts mapping out the collaborative information seeking systems domain.  Here is an excerpt:

When we view collaboration from the IR perspective, it becomes clear that collaboration does not merely refer to a decision to work together.  Rather, it refers [...]