PICTURE THIS.
A meeting room for 300 people in the New York Hilton.
The room is jammed. A sea of dark suits, white shirts, ties.
Every chair is occupied by a top executive of a Fortune 500 company, a major association director or a government administrative bigwig.
They’re ready for a presentation by a British expert on how to deal with the tidal wave of information that either already is or should be more accessible and usable by computer operators.
The speaker is introduced, turns on the projector. He doesn’t say one magic word like