The much awaited 17th edition of VOLUME is out!
It should be in book stores by the end of the week… JDS’ interview will be posted up soon…but in the mean time here’s quick preview of what’s in store…

Volume 17: Content Management

Large quantities don’t faze us. We are accustomed to profits in the billions; city populations, visitors, sales in the tens of millions; personalized recommendations, search results, comments by the thousands; and scientific discoveries by the hundreds. But no sooner had we felt that plenty of money, information, and possibilities were normal than we began to face a world of scarcity. Perhaps we’ll go down in history as those who witnessed the arrival of an era of unlimited availability only to contend with massive shortfalls. Resources of all kinds are said to be dwindling: the sudden loss in assets, equity, and funding; the decreasing availability of non-renewable fuels; and the slowing output of the global food supply chain. It’s like playing poker under more favorable house rules, but with steadily disappearing cards.

At the close of this era of expansion and surplus C-Lab speculates on one of the period’s emblematic inventions: Content Management, or the collecting, organizing and sharing of digital information. Our retrospective appraisal of recent developments in the managing of information offers insight into the ability of Content Management to serve the current realities of digital abundance and material shortage, and to protect both vast and extremely limited quantities.

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images and text thanx to Jesse Seegers at Volume/C-Lab