1.
INFORMATION SYSTEM
DEVELOPMENT
Alberto Pulmones
Master in Management Engineering
Limit to Pangasinan State University
Urdaneta, Pangasinan
Information

2.
LIMITS TO INFORMATION
“On an average weekday the New York
Times contains more information than
any contemporary of Shakespeare’s
would have acquired in a life time.” -
Anonymous (and Ubiquitous)
“Every year, better methods are being
devised to quantify information and
distill it into quadrillions of atomistic
packets of data.”- Bill Gates
“By 2047… all information about physical
objects including humans, buildings
processes and organizations, will be
online. This is both desirable and
inevitable.” - Gordon Bell an d Jim Gray
“This is the datafication of shared
knowledge.” - Tom Philips, Deja News

3.
LIMITS TO INFORMATION
Chronic Information shortage threatened work,
education, research, innovation, and economic decision
making – whether at the level of government policy,
business strategy, or household shopping. The lack of
information appeared to be one of society’s
fundamental problems. Theorist talked about
humanity’s “bounded rationality” and the difficulty of
making decisions in conditions of limited or imperfect
information.

4.
 The power and speed of information technology can make this trap both hard
to see and hard to escape. When information burdens start to loom, many of
the standard responses fall into a category we call “Morre’s Law” solution.
The law, an important one, is named after Gordon Moore, one of the founders
of the chip maker intel. He predicted the computer power available on a chip
would approximately double every eighteen months. His law has held up for
the past decade and looks like it will continue to do so for the next. (It this law
that can make it hard to buy a computer. Whenever you buy, you always know
that within eighteen months the same capabilities will be available at the half
price.)

5.
DROWNING AND DIDN’T KNOW IT
 All information about physical objects, including humans, buildings, processes
and organization, will be online. It’s sometimes hard to fathom what there is
beyond information to talk about.
 The difficulty of overlooking to these various forms through which
information has conventionally come to us, however is that info centric
visions tends to dismiss them as irrelevant. Info enthusiast insist, for example,
not only that information technology will see the end of documents, break
narratives into hypertext, and reduce knowledge to data, but that such things
as organizations and institutions are little more than relics of a discredited old
regime.

6.
ORIGIN MYTHS
 Historian frequently trace the beginning of the information age not to the
internet, the computer, or even the telephone, but to the telegraph. With the
telegraph the speed of information essentially separated itself from the
speed of human travel. People travel at the speed of train. Information began
to travel at the speed of light. In some versions of this origin story (which
tends to forget that fire and smoke had long been used to convey messages
over distance at the speed of light), information takes on not only a speed of
its own, but a life of its own.

7.
HAMMERING INFORMATION
 Information offers to satisfy your wanderlust without the
need to wander from the keyboard.
 If we were ask today any question in mind no doubt the
best place to go is http://www...
 Most of the computer and IT industry always informing
that they have the answer. Sometimes they say they are
the answer.
 Microsoft advertises itself with the question: “Where do
you want to go today? But what is itself reveling a
question. It suggest that Microsoft has the answers.
Technology will bring virtually anything you want you in
the comfort of your own home.

8.
REFINING OR MERELY REDEFINING
 Microsoft’s view of your wants is plausible so long as whatever you do and
whatever you want translate into information – and whatever gets left
behind doesn’t matter. From this point of view value lies in information,
which technology can refine away from the raw and uninteresting husk of
the physical world.
 This desire to see things in information's light no doubt drives what we think
of as “infoprefixation.” Info gives new life to a lot of old worlds in
compounds such as infotainment, Informatics, infomating and infomediary. It
also gives a new promise to a lot of new companies.

9.
THE MYTH OF INFORMATION
 The myth of information that is empowering richer explanation. To say this
is not to belittle information and its technologies. These are making critical
and unprecedented contribution to the changes society. It’s clear that the
causes of those changes include much more than information itself. The
myth significantly blind society to the character of and forces behind those
changes.

10.
6-D VISION
 Overreliance on information leads to what we think of as “6-D vision.” This is
not necessarily twice as good as 3D kind.
 The D in our 6 – D notions stands for the de – or dis – in such futurist –
favored word as:
 Demassification
 Decentralization
 Denationalization
 Despacialization
 Disintermediation
 Disaggregation

11.
6-D VISION : Demassification
Demystifying Demassification
What was 'demassification‘ ?"
To demasssify something is
to cause (society or a social system) to become le
ss uniform or centralized; diversifyor decentralize: Source: drivingtraffic.com
to demassify the federal government.
to break (something standardized or homogene
ous) into elements that appeal toindividual
tastes or special interests:to demassify the magaz
ine industry into special-interest periodicals.
Source:moneymakingblog.co.za

12.
Demystifying Demassification
people used to actually subscribe to (or at least go to the
library to read) particular academic journals. It would be
hard to find anyone doing that anymore. It is so easy to
go on-line and use a digital database to find articles
across a number of journals which are on topics that you
are interested in
While there are many advantages to this, there is one
notable draw-back. Fewer and fewer academics will
have broader general knowledge about their disciplines.
As each of them only reads what is relevant to their own
narrow research area, our research may become deeper
and more sophisticated, but also more narrower
Source: http://irlsdigitalcultures.blogspot.com

13.
6-D Vision : Decentralization (cause & effect)
 To provide effective IT services, the institution must  The proximity to and accessibility of IT
fulfill the real and perceived needs of individual users personnel is another important factor in the
to the greatest degree possible. Greater diversity in an perceived responsiveness of distributed
institution increases the challenge of meeting individual environments. Because individual
user needs as the number, type, and customization of disciplinary specialists can make
services increase. In a distributed environment many of pedagogical and operational decisions that
these needs can be addressed by local modifications are most appropriate for their group, for
or by locally modified applications. Localization can be most faculty and staff distributed
accomplished readily because access to IT computing appears to be more
professionals is direct and involves a minimum of appropriately responsive to local needs
bureaucratic processes than a centralized computing environment
Over time very large systems
accumulate significant in-house
adaptations to meet real or
perceived institutional needs. When Source:bookrapper.com
either the hardware or software
used in these systems becomes
obsolete, it is difficult to migrate or
upgrade the systems in a manner
that preserves all of the necessary
adaptations.
Source: http://www.educause.edu

14.
6-D VISION : Denationalization
Disintermediation is giving the user or the
consumer direct access to information that
otherwise would require a mediator, such
as a salesperson, a librarian, or a lawyer.
Observers of the Internet and the World
Wide Web note that these new
technologies give users the power to look
up medical, legal information, travel, or
comparative product data directly, in some
cases removing the need for the mediator
(doctor, lawyer, salesperson) or at the very
least changing the relationship between the
user and the product or service provider.
Source:article.besttermpaper.com

15.
6-D VISION : Despacialization
Microsoft preaches
"despacialization" (the end of
a need to be spatially close to
the action). They
demonstrate the sustained
value of informal, cultural
contacts within a
geographical region.
Source:manyworlds.com

16.
6-D VISION : Disintermediation
Disintermediation is giving the user or the
consumer direct access to information that
otherwise would require a mediator, such
as a salesperson, a librarian, or a lawyer.
Observers of the Internet and the World
Wide Web note that these new
technologies give users the power to look
up medical, legal information, travel, or
comparative product data directly, in some
cases removing the need for the mediator
(doctor, lawyer, salesperson) or at the very
least changing the relationship between the
user and the product or service provider.
Source:davinciinstitute.com

17.
6-D VISION : Disaggregation
Information-intensive services are being
globally disaggregated as corporations
respond to the pressures of increasing
global competition, and take advantage of
the opportunities made available by the
progress of information technology and the
emerging global work force. In order to
globally disaggregate services,
corporations must decide whether or not to
carry out a service activity within the
organization, and where to locate it, within
or outside the geographic boundary of the
home-base country.
Apte and Mason:1995
Source:commlawblog.com

18.
Source: kingsleydigicult.wordpress.com
The Internet is not simply a set of interconnected links
and protocols---it is also a construct of the imagination,
an inkblot test into which everyone projects their desires,
fears, and fantasies. Some see enlightenment and
education. Others see pornography and gambling. Some
see sharing and collaboration. Others see spam and
viruses. Yet when it comes to the impact on the
democratic process, the answer seems unanimous. The
Internet is good for democracy. It creates digital citizens
active in the teledemocracy [1] of the Electronic Republic
[2] in the e-nation [3]. But this bubble, too, needs to be
pricked.