A THOUGHT—on triage…if medical triage is about maximizing the number of survivors—treating those most likely to recover or eventually be healthy—then what is info-triage attempting to do? “Save” the most useful or pertinent information? I think while this is a useful and applicable metaphor, that it can only go so far in its strict medical definition. My use, for information and making decisions, has to be inherently more flexible and mutable. Information given up for “dead” could prove to later be crucial—and perhaps would need to be “resurrected.” My system has to have a way of abandoning information for dead, but still allowing for its retrieval if it later proves necessary.
But how to do that? How can you organize something and give it a useful design if it’s infinitely reconfigurable? This is very much Weinberger’s “pile of leaves.” So how to rake those into a comprehensible shape?
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