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by Lee Bryant

This is a Headshift blog post by Lee Bryant, written on May 28, 2003. It has (0) comments.

The sociobiology of Information Architecture

Boxes and Arrows: The Sociobiology of Information Architecture is a fascinating and challenging piece that applies sociobiology to the way we think about organising and sharing information:

"To approach information architecture from a purely anthrocentric perspective, however, is to overlook the lessons of billions of years' worth of evolutionary history. We are by no means the first species to grapple with the basic problems of what we now call information architecture: how to acquire knowledge in social groups, how to get the right information to the right party at the right time, how to distill meaning from raw data."

"Much as we may like to think of ourselves as belonging to a uniquely privileged species, the fact is that every complex organism on this planet is engaged in a shared struggle with information overload."

Thanks to Fabio Sergio for the reading tip!

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