Footnotes

 

(1)

The word "informating" was coined by Shoshana Zuboff in her 1988 book, In the Age of the Smart Machine, to describe the way that information technology could be used to expand knowledge, particularly in the workplace, in contrast to the concerns associated with "automating" of work.  

(2)

Note that this graph is mainly the work of an Rensselaer undergraduate student, Phillip Thorne. Phillip had much better ideas than I did about how to depict the hierarchical relationships between concepts, and I think this is a small but telling illustration of the kind of mutual benefit to be gained by faculty/student informating projects.