The informationist-two years later.

The participants generally agreed that the word was inelegant, but we all kept using it anyway, as if the acknowledgment released us from the search to find something better. As we bandied it about, one might have thought it had been in general parlance for years, rather than being a recent coinage invented to try to gather loosely together a set of concepts for exploration. Now that the conference on “The Informationist” is over, do we have a better idea of what the informationist is? I think we do. At least, I think we have a better understanding of some of the ideas involved.