Chapter 3. Information Interaction

Documents are, quite simply, talking things.
They are bits of the material world—clay,
stone, animal skin, plant fiber, sand—that
we've imbued with the ability to speak.

—David M. Levy

University of Washington iSchool

Let me tell you a story about the laws of Moore and Mooers . Once upon a time, in 1965 to be precise, an engineer named Gordon Moore boldly predicted the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits would double every year. In his landmark paper for the journal of Electronics, Moore conjectured: