INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT

Alberto Pulmones

Master in Management Engineering

Pangasinan State UniversityUrdaneta, Pangasinan

Limit toInformation

LIMITS TO INFORMATION“On an average weekday the New York Times contains more

information than any contemporary of Shakespeare’s would have acquired in a life time.” - Anonymous (and Ubiquitous)

“Every year, better methods are being devised to quantify information and distill it into quadrillions of atomistic packets of data.”- Bill Gates

“By 2047… all information about physical objects including humans, buildings processes and organizations, will be online. This is both desirable and inevitable.” - Gordon Bell an d Jim Gray

“This is the datafication of shared knowledge.” - Tom Philips, Deja News

LIMITS TO INFORMATION

Chronic Information shortage threatened work, education, research, innovation, and economic decision making – whether at the level of government policy, business strategy, or household shopping. The lack of information appeared to be one of society’s fundamental problems. Theorist talked about humanity’s “bounded rationality” and the difficulty of making decisions in conditions of limited or imperfect information.

The power and speed of information technology can make this trap both hard to see and hard to escape. When information burdens start to loom, many of the standard responses fall into a category we call “Morre’s Law” solution. The law, an important one, is named after Gordon Moore, one of the founders of the chip maker intel. He predicted the computer power available on a chip would approximately double every eighteen months. His law has held up for the past decade and looks like it will continue to do so for the next. (It this law that can make it hard to buy a computer. Whenever you buy, you always know that within eighteen months the same capabilities will be available at the half price.)

 

DROWNING AND DIDN’T KNOW IT All information about physical objects, including humans, buildings,

processes and organization, will be online. It’s sometimes hard to fathom what there is beyond information to talk about.

The difficulty of overlooking to these various forms through which information has conventionally come to us, however is that info centric visions tends to dismiss them as irrelevant. Info enthusiast insist, for example, not only that information technology will see the end of documents, break narratives into hypertext, and reduce knowledge to data, but that such things as organizations and institutions are little more than relics of a discredited old regime.

ORIGIN MYTHS Historian frequently trace the beginning of the information age not

to the internet, the computer, or even the telephone, but to the telegraph. With the telegraph the speed of information essentially separated itself from the speed of human travel. People travel at the speed of train. Information began to travel at the speed of light. In some versions of this origin story (which tends to forget that fire and smoke had long been used to convey messages over distance at the speed of light), information takes on not only a speed of its own, but a life of its own.

HAMMERING INFORMATION Information offers to satisfy your wanderlust without

the need to wander from the keyboard.

If we were ask today any question in mind no doubt the best place to go is http://www...

Most of the computer and IT industry always informing that they have the answer. Sometimes they say they are the answer.

Microsoft advertises itself with the question: “Where do you want to go today? But what is itself reveling a question. It suggest that Microsoft has the answers. Technology will bring virtually anything you want you in the comfort of your own home.

REFINING OR MERELY REDEFINING Microsoft’s view of your wants is plausible so long as whatever

you do and whatever you want translate into information – and whatever gets left behind doesn’t matter. From this point of view value lies in information, which technology can refine away from the raw and uninteresting husk of the physical world.

This desire to see things in information's light no doubt drives what we think of as “infoprefixation.” Info gives new life to a lot of old worlds in compounds such as infotainment, Informatics, infomating and infomediary. It also gives a new promise to a lot of new companies.

THE MYTH OF INFORMATION The myth of information that is empowering richer explanation.

To say this is not to belittle information and its technologies. These are making critical and unprecedented contribution to the changes society. It’s clear that the causes of those changes include much more than information itself. The myth significantly blind society to the character of and forces behind those changes.

6-D VISION Overreliance on information leads to what we think of as “6-D

vision.” This is not necessarily twice as good as 3D kind.

The D in our 6 – D notions stands for the de – or dis – in such futurist – favored word as: Demassification Decentralization Denationalization Despacialization Disintermediation Disaggregation

6-D VISION :Demassification

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Demystifying Demassification

What was 'demassification‘ ?"

To demasssify something isto cause (society or a social system) to become less uniform or centralized; diversifyor decentralize: to demassify the federal government.

to break (something standardized or homogeneous) into elements that appeal toindividualtastes or special interests:to demassify the magazine industry into special-interest periodicals.

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Demystifying Demassification

people used to actually subscribe to (or at least go to the library to read) particular academic journals. It would be hard to find anyone doing that anymore. It is so easy to go on-line and use a digital database to find articles across a number of journals which are on topics that you are interested in

While there are many advantages to this, there is one notable draw-back. Fewer and fewer academics will have broader general knowledge about their disciplines. As each of them only reads what is relevant to their own narrow research area, our research may become deeper and more sophisticated, but also more narrower

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6-D Vision : Decentralization (cause & effect)

Source:bookrapper.com

To provide effective IT services, the institution must fulfill the real and perceived needs of individual users to the greatest degree possible. Greater diversity in an institution increases the challenge of meeting individual user needs as the number, type, and customization of services increase. In a distributed environment many of these needs can be addressed by local modifications or by locally modified applications. Localization can be accomplished readily because access to IT professionals is direct and involves a minimum of bureaucratic processes

The proximity to and accessibility of IT personnel is another important factor in the perceived responsiveness of distributed environments. Because individual disciplinary specialists can make pedagogical and operational decisions that are most appropriate for their group, for most faculty and staff distributed computing appears to be more appropriately responsive to local needs than a centralized computing environment

Over time very large systems accumulate significant in-house adaptations to meet real or perceived institutional needs. When either the hardware or software used in these systems becomes obsolete, it is difficult to migrate or upgrade the systems in a manner that preserves all of the necessary adaptations. 

Source: http://www.educause.edu

6-D VISION: Denationalization

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Disintermediation is giving the user or the consumer direct access to information that otherwise would require a mediator, such as a salesperson, a librarian, or a lawyer. Observers of the Internet and the World Wide Web note that these new technologies give users the power to look up medical, legal information, travel, or comparative product data directly, in some cases removing the need for the mediator (doctor, lawyer, salesperson) or at the very least changing the relationship between the user and the product or service provider.

6-D VISION: Despacialization

Source:manyworlds.com

Microsoft preaches "despacialization" (the end of a need to be spatially close to the action). They demonstrate the sustained value of informal, cultural contacts within a geographical region.

6-D VISION: Disintermediation

Source:davinciinstitute.com

Disintermediation is giving the user or the consumer direct access to information that otherwise would require a mediator, such as a salesperson, a librarian, or a lawyer. Observers of the Internet and the World Wide Web note that these new technologies give users the power to look up medical, legal information, travel, or comparative product data directly, in some cases removing the need for the mediator (doctor, lawyer, salesperson) or at the very least changing the relationship between the user and the product or service provider.

6-D VISION: Disaggregation

Source:commlawblog.com

Information-intensive services are being globally disaggregated as corporations respond to the pressures of increasing global competition, and take advantage of the opportunities made available by the progress of information technology and the emerging global work force. In order to globally disaggregate services, corporations must decide whether or not to carry out a service activity within the organization, and where to locate it, within or outside the geographic boundary of the home-base country.

Apte and Mason:1995

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The Internet is not simply a set of interconnected links and protocols---it is also a construct of the imagination, an inkblot test into which everyone projects their desires, fears, and fantasies. Some see enlightenment and education. Others see pornography and gambling. Some see sharing and collaboration. Others see spam and viruses. Yet when it comes to the impact on the democratic process, the answer seems unanimous. The Internet is good for democracy. It creates digital citizens active in the teledemocracy [1] of the Electronic Republic [2] in the e-nation [3]. But this bubble, too, needs to be pricked.