Memo from Mercury
Information Technology Is Different
1979
About
Thompson, an engineer working for Bell Northern Research (Canada), argues perceptively that information technology is essentially different from industrial technologies. He proposes, long before Google, a way of connecting people to information that will prove relevant to their interests by matching information-seeking behaviours.
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