Stephen Downes

What is the relation between authority and findability? This question - central to the role of librarians - kicks off this interview on the subject of indexing and folsonomies with Peter Morville, author of the book Ambient Findability. The future is multi-algorithmic, says Morville. "Last week I went to the shopping mall for the first (and last) time this year. It was a horrible experience. I had to physically drag my body from store to store in search of a specific product. I desperately wanted to Google the Mall."