Etymology

informationist

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Today it means: One who gathers, analyzes, interprets and uses information, possibly as a career. Full definition →

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The story

From information + -ist. Informationist and informationism are first known to have arisen in the work of a group of Scottish poets in the 1994 book Contraflow on the SuperHighway.

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