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Shuman, Bruce A. – 1989
After surveying the history and current status of online database searching, this report offers a timeline describing four stages of possible developments for online systems. In the first stage, an expert interface assists CD-ROM-based searching by offering advice about search strategies. Advantages are that search logic can be refined with the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cybernetics, Expert Systems, Futures (of Society)