Foreword
Cape Town, 27 January 2014
“It’s about time,” was my first thought when Tom Johnston asked me to review his manuscript. It is indeed about matters temporal. And it certainly is about time that we consider chronology as a key component of data. But it is about much more. Because in order to understand time and its relationship to data and, more importantly, to business, Tom has had to explore what stored data actually represents. It’s in and through that exploration that the true, lasting value of this book emerges: a deep insight into the connections between the real, physically existing world and the representations we create in the data we record about that world. And although this book focuses on time and its ...
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