Xerox parc
In 1969, Peter McColough, the chairman of Xerox, put out that Xerox was determined to develop “the architecture of information” to solve the problem of the coming “knowledge explosion.” He then turned to VP of R&D, Jack Goldman, and said, “All right, go start a lab that will find out what I just meant.“
This is probably not what happened, but it’s a good image. Particularly because every major IA initiative I’ve been a part of has started with a good line, and then all of us trying to figure out what we just meant.
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