BUILDING A BETTER WORLD WITH OUR INFORMATION

Part 1 in The Future of series covers the fundamentals of personal information management (PIM) and then explores the seismic shift, already well underway, toward a world where our information is always at hand (thanks to our devices) and forever on the web. Part 2, Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information, provides a more focused look at technologies for managing information. The opening chapter discusses natural interface technologies of input/output to free us from keyboard, screen, and mouse. Successive chapters then explore technologies to save, search, and structure our information. A concluding chapter introduces the possibility that we may see dramatic reductions in the clerical tax we pay as we work with our information. Focus in this concluding Part 3 to the series shifts to the practical and to the near future. What can we do, now or soon, to manage our information better? And, as we do so, how might we build a better world? Part 3 is in three chapters