The World Wide Web: from one proposal for an information management system to an ever-widening universe of information yet to be discovered

Abstract

This work is a reflection on the interrelation between the management of information in organizations and in hypertext systems, in the sense that it is a creation of the WWW. A review of the theoretical postulates of hypertext, proposed mainly by Bush and Nelson, is presented as a possible solution to the crisis of information management, comparing with the situation of the early nineties in organizations. We study the problems detected by Berners-Lee in his work environment that led him to develop the WWW, the evolution that this technology has had and how it is still needed for an adequate management of information. The current degree of technology development allows good management of the contents of organizations. The problems are now more related to the attitude of those responsible for the organizations. It is necessary to try that the organizations bet decisively for these technologies to improve their functioning at the moment of the management of the information. In addition, the WWW is a system in continuous evolution in which we must continue to investigate, we have not yet reached a final vision of this technology.