ASIS&T 2006 Annual Meeting
November 3 - 8, 2006. ASIS&T 2006 Annual Meeting. Information Realities: Shaping the Digital Future for All Austin Texas. http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM06/index.html
Information technology has enabled an expanding digital world, inextricably linked to our physical existence but revolutionary in terms of human creativity and thought. New technologies for mobile communication, massively distributed collaboration, and real-time information sharing are having a radical impact on human expressions, interactions and records. There is likely to be a continuing demand for powerful information organization, aggregation, and dissemination tools to harness these new information realities.
However, the key to understanding these trends must be found at human and social levels. To reflect on and address the challenges ahead, some of the critical questions we are interested in are:
- What opportunities are arising?
- Are there dangers that we need to prepare for?
- How will the future information world be shaped and who will shape it?
ASIS&T 2006 challenges us to explore this moment in the history of information science as people move seamlessly between their physical and digital worlds to create information realities for themselves and others.