If you’ve been around the School of Information, you’ll have encountered the slogan “Connecting people, information, and technology in more valuable ways” or some other form of the people, information and technology (henceforth PIT) triad. You’ll find PIT frequently situated in Borromean rings infesting crapola PowerPoint slides something like this:
Think about the relationships between the elements of PIT implied by this arrangement. Are they three independent, yet interlocked, things? Or doesn’t it seem likely that one of them might arise only out of an interaction between the others? What’s the most important element? So why do people put up with this PIT folderol? You tell me.
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