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From: ghm@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Geoff Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Info Engineers
Message-ID: <2288@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au>
Date: 20 Feb 91 22:56:25 GMT
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Organization: Computer Centre, University College, UNSW, ADFA, Canberra, Australia
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djy@INEL.GOV (Daniel J. Yurman) writes:

>        This post my be somewhat off center from the current
>dialog because it deals more with data and organizational issues
>than technology.  Readers of this list are invited to respond as
>to whether they think it is appropriate or useful to post any
>further ideas along these lines to INFO.FUTURES.

I haven't (obviously) reposted Daniel's article, which I have filed for
future detailed consideration, but I'd like to address this one point.  What
I was getting at in my earlier post was precisely this idea, that the data
and organisational issues are going to be the important ones.  The technology
will be available, mostly through the use of "off-the-shelf" or "shrink-
wrapped" software and hardware, but the average punter will not have the
breadth of knowledge to know how to put them together and how to make best use
of them.  The other aspect to this is that the very availablity of the
technology has an impact on what information can usefully be collected, and
this is another area where the "Information Engineer" should have an input
to organisational planning.

Certainly this is an appropriate forum for such discussions.

Geoff Miller  (ghm@cc.adfa.oz.au)
Computer Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy