Memo from Mercury

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Thompson, an engineer working for Bell Northern Research (Canada), argues perceptively that information technology is essentially different from industrial technologies. He proposes, long before Google, a way of connecting people to information that will prove relevant to their interests by matching information-seeking behaviours.

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