Information science research: The search for the nature of information
Manfred Kochen · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · 1984
Abstract High‐level scientific research in the information sciences is illustrated by a sample of recent discoveries involving the design of information‐processing algorithms, bibliometric scaling, and flows of information in biological systems and in countries. It is pointed out that when the concept of information first assumed an independent identity, the only known information processing systems were biological; now, after four decades of vigorous development of electronic information systems, the search for the essential nature of information is focussing again on biological systems and on sociotechnological systems as well.