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February 22, 2006
Ambient losability
Currently Bleeding Edge is reading information architect Peter Morville's absorbing book, Ambient Findability. It's a fascinating exploration of why we look for things and fail to find them, and the manner in which the act of searching actually changes us.
There's something pathetic, isn't there, about the way the human animal, having lost much of its innate sense of direction in the natural environment [you call this evolution?], possibly because Melways is cheaper and more accurate, continues to be engaged in a restless endeavour to find his way in the world of facts and information.
Personally, we're convinced that this is because facts don't want to be found, and have enlisted the unconscious support of people who design Web sites and write information manuals to make it difficult to sniff them out.
It's time somebody exposed this.
Posted by cw at February 22, 2006 05:44 PM