The project that called me away from this explored the growth of two new 'disciplines'--identity management and information assurance. Both are attempts to put strategic management protocols around all the work that is going on in subsectors relating to passwords, permissions, hand-offs of responsibilities between websites and organisations, etc. They're both new, and they both deal with subsectors that they want to 'control' (i.e., have oversight responsibility for). So I've been exposed to information on the growth of both of them and other sectors as well, such as biometrics.
The next three posts will look at knowledge growth in these sectors. Since two of them were essentially invented after 9/11, the time series will be blessedly short.
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