A few days ago I read an interview for the 101st birthday of William Lovelock. Lovelock points out that he made his Gaia hypothesis not as a scientist but as an engineer. He has, I understand, been involved with measurement and control techniques and has therefore studied the Earth as a self-regulating system.
A little later I came across a somewhat older lecture by Tim Bernes-Lee through Teodora : Hypertext and Our Collective Destiny. Berners-Lee also has a global perspective, and he too sees himself as an engineer, not a theorist. In the lecture, Berners-Lee asks how to use the web, and especially how to use its core, the link, in such a way that it serves to connect humanity more closely. The opposite of this, which Berners-Lee calls
link - $
has been accepted so far. Unfortunately, this formula also describes what links and content are mostly used for in content strategy.
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