
CHAPTER 29
Objectives
Emerging Technologies and
the Generation of Knowledge
Peter J. Murray and W. Scott Erdley
1. Outline the history of technology development
and informatics applications.
2. Describe some of today’s state-of-the-art
technologies.
3. Predict the evolution of technology and its
impact on knowledge generation in nursing.
The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed…
(William Gibson, novelist and visionary)
INTRODUCTION
Anyone foolhardy enough to try to predict the future holds himself
or herself hostage to fortune as soon as the words are on the page—
or in the case of many people’s ways of writing today, as the data
have been saved ...