
514 | CHAPTER 29 Emerging Technologies and the Generation of Knowledge
uses and identified research questions. The emergence of social bookmarking,
tags and tag clouds, and folksonomies are providing opportunities for the explo-
ration of new ways of linking, ordering, and searching information, based in large
part on popularity of its use among a community. These tools have implications
for the ways in which health and nursing informatics are classified.
SOME VIEWS OF WHAT WILL AFFECT THE FUTURE
Several nursing informaticians have concluded their books by looking to the future
and imagining scenarios for the life and work of the 21st century nurse. ...