Keynote address for Mappers2011: first international Information Mapping (R) users conference in Houston, Tx.

1. The Knowledge Revolution Information Overload Mappers2011 Rob Hanna – STC Associate Fellow

2. Rob Hanna The SingleSourceror

3. Future of Technical Communication History of Information Technology Information is Currency Convergence

4. History of Information Technology Based on a True Story

5. Prehistory of IT Ancient Cave Drawings Hieroglyphics Stone Tablets Scrolls

6. Words on a Page Codex Gutenberg Typewriter

7. Digital Age Electronic Publishing Hypertext Structured Authoring Social Media

8. Future State Visual Language Semantic Ontologies The Human Cognome Project

9. Inspiration #1 Johnny Mnemonic

10. Information is Currency Business Will Drive Knowledge Innovation

11. The Value of Information Businesses fail to value information Information will overwhelm business Companies struggle to manage content Something has to give…

12. Inspiration #2 Saul Carliner and the Society for Technical Communication

13. Intellectual Capital Accounting Methods fall back on Brick and Mortar “Goodwill” Value of Information DotCom Bubbles

14. What is Money Anyway? Medium of Exchange Unit of Account Store of Value

15. Convergence Intelligent Content Darwin Information Typing Information Mapping STC Technical Communicator Certification Enterprise Content Management Business Valuation User Evolution