Nanotechnology and Information Management (Future uses of technology)
Presented by Judith Ellis.
Information creation devices change, and information formats change, and both will continue to do so. Consider for example our mobile phone, which can store increasingly large amounts of data – our identity, our movements, our financial and other transactions. We see an increasing range of functions performed by these devices – enabling us to use this data in various ways and disseminate it. People’s lives will become records… contained in one small device. At another level, extensive networks are being built to store huge volumes of data about government, along with sophisticated search engines using smart software. The citizen will be able to connect to government and its services anywhere – from the home, car, aeroplane.
People will expect instant information; organisations of all types will have to deliver it. Our challenge is how do we identify what needs to be captured and managed? How do we manage it, how do we make it accessible and readable for the future? What new methods and approaches should we develop?
This paper looks at future directions in technology, in particular the developments using nanotechnology, and explores the implications for information management and the thinking required to provide appropriate expertise, tools and methods in the emerging environment.
