Brian Campbell Vickery on Technology
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Brian Campbell Vickery, catalogued under technology, with dates where available.
This page displays 6 quotations attributed to Brian Campbell Vickery and filed under "technology" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Brian Campbell Vickery, entry #150122: "science and technology are now so closely linked that analysis and experiment lead quickly on to invention, to the introduction of new channels ."
Attributed to Brian Campbell Vickery, entry #184649: "Perhaps an underlying cause is in some cases... the apprehension that information science may become “submerged” in the larger field of computer science."
6 Quotes by Brian Campbell Vickery on Technology
"science and technology are now so closely linked that analysis and experiment lead quickly on to invention, to the introduction of new channels ."
"Perhaps an underlying cause is in some cases... the apprehension that information science may become “submerged” in the larger field of computer science."
"Information retrieval is now an accepted part of the new discipline of information science and technology... I have concentrated on the field with which I am most familiar, the problems of bibliographic description and subject analysis."
"The areas traditionally concerned with such systems are: publishing in all its ramification, librarianship, bibliography, documentation, record management, archives and the like. Systematic study of the activities in all these areas has lead to increased recognition of their common features. They are all concerned with information systems, and their study may include in the wider field of 'information science and technology' or 'informatics' ."
"Information systems, at any level of complexity above that of speech, necessarily involve technologies such as printing, telecommunications, or computers. However, to information science technical potentialities and constraints are of importance mainly in that they affect the social relations concerned."
"In its whole sweep, therefore, information work includes: science, that helps us to understand our problems; technology, that helps us to solve them; and the art of participating in each delicate interpersonal communication into which we are invited. The fusion of these three aspects of the craft creates a “triple glow” of optimal service."