What social norms, expectations, rules, and perceptions are associated with “info enthusiasm” and how do these affect how we implement and manage IT systems in organizations?`

p The impact of Info Enthusiasm ' on IT systems management

This summer , France opened a new museum dedicated to non-european pieces that has become the center of discussion about information presentation and bias that touches the heart of today 's debate about the future of technology . Envisioned ten years ago as a testament to Jaques Chirac 's belief in multiculturalism , Musee du Quai Branly is being criticized for promoting a colonial and oppressive viewpoint , ignoring the objects political , historical , and cultural meanings . The museum 's president Stephane Martin responded to these criticisims

by saying that today he must deal with an information saturated public ' who are no longer using museums to forge connections and tell stories , but rather as one piece of information , another source to draw from out of the vast sea of information (Browning , 2006 . Human context has again made the museum viable

In the ten years between the museums inception and its realization , the concept of a fragmented museum housing one type of art has been outmoded by a changing social consciousness and then revisioned in the context of changing information flows . Social and information advances at times both undermine and validate each other . Certainly , when structuring and managing information technology systems it is important to consider both forces

The rise of information technology has many interesting connotations and reverberations among our most established institutions , government schools , healthcare , museum , and cultural identity . These changes apparently caused by the advances of computer and phone technology have caused people to rally around an opinion of what the effects of this new age will have on our future

Information Enthusiasts ' is a term used to describe those who take the most rapid point of current change and use it to extrapolate into the future . They believe that advances in technology are inevitably driving us toward a paradise of shared knowledge , cultural diversity and dissolution of organizations and intermediaries . A supreme confidence in the inventiveness and progress of humankind derived from Gordon Moore 's Law ' drives Info Enthusiasts to believe that any problems that arise will be solved by the very technology that created the problem in the first place (Brown et al , 2 . Further , they believe that because society is on a single path to disaggregation and decentralization , the future lies in direct transmission of information to consumers without the benefit of middlemen

Analysts of information technology and systems such as Brown and Dunguid disagree with this optimistic view of the future of technology and say that unbridled enthusiasm for technology overlooks the social framework into which technology fits and disguises the many directional movements of our society (Brown et al , 9 . Ultimately , although in some cases information is more accessible to more people , in others power and information has become more centralized , such as the case in Wal-Mart and Xerox . In fact power is so centralized and information exchange for this power is so efficient in transnational conglomerates , they have been accused of causing the decline of the nation-state due...