Information storage and display

Christopher Burns

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1981, vol. 32, issue 2, 141-147

Abstract: This perspective on information storage and display reviews the latest technologies and then, taking a broader view, discusses the current understanding of access schemes and cognitive processing to argue the thesis that over the next decade information science will concentrate less on the new tools and more on how they can or should be used for “storage and display.” Teletext, viewdata, interactive graphics, video disc, audio synthesis, and holography are discussed. Visual mnemonics, tree structures, indexing, and scanning are considered as technology‐independent access schemes. The limits on comprehension of variables and symbol processing as well as the functions of the bicameral brain are discussed generally in order to demonstrate that, while information storage capacities expand at a logarithmic rate, the capacities of the ultimate user remain biologically fixed. Storage and display is the man/machine interface; it has not kept pace with technology, and continued inattention to this area will present real and significant risks.

Date: 1981
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