http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,3959,1195170,00.asp
Thought-provoking and highly metaphorical article discussing the relevance of "information architectures" and suggesting the these are not sufficent -- we need the equivalent of "city planning" as well. The point that any sufficiently large scale planning objective will almost always be obsolete once completed is contrasted with the seductive nature of such a vision in the first place.
Deep background thinking like this is an important component to overall IT progress, because new metaphors can result in new meanings.
Posted by jho at August 12, 2003 08:44 PM