ABSTRACT
In its currently popular trend, information science shows an almost complete preoccupation with technological problems and products. A corollary of this preoccupation is a deep impatience with all efforts which do not immediately affect information technology. At the same time, the fact that applied information research has been unable to attain many of the more important objectives enthusiastically predicted for it twenty years ago is attributed today largely to the absence in the information field of a core of basic, or scientific, results—such as were available, for instance, from physics for aeronautical engineering.
