Do we really need to mail around gigas and gigas of information that hardly anybody reads? Do we have to construct huge databases that in day to day management serve very little? Or can we invent another, more ecological way of dealing with information flows. Information ecology is a concept that already exists a while, but that has never (as far as I know) really been visualised. One of my MSc students in France (Matthias Adler) did an interesting study, using agents, about the emergent character of information ecology. Maybe we should call it the biology of information. Interesting to read, and again in order not to wait for a journal publication, here is the thesis (first draft article) version
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