Re: [BULK] Information 4.0 Is this a "thing"?

[John G <john -at- garisons -dot- com>]

After reading James Gleick's "The Information: A History, A Theory, A
Flood" I think it's more like Information 43.2.4

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
wrote:

> The "traditional linear-document format" survives mostly as one of
> many delivery formats of topic-based single-sourced docs.
>
> HTML5 is yet another delivery format. I think XHTML has already been
> established as the standard HTML-flavor source format for authoring
> tools.
>
> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Wright, Lynne <Lynne -dot- Wright -at- kronos -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > From what i could tell by a quick skim of the consortium's home page,
> what's pertinent to tech comm would be the concept of delivering
> information in distinct little chunks (ie with DITA), rather than the
> traditional linear-document format.
> >
> > So in that sense, I'd say that, yes, things seem to be headed in that
> direction, with people switching to writing content in tools based on HTML5.
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