Gatekeepers unbundled
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, the gatekeeper is one who is in charge of a passage through a gate, one who monitors or oversees the actions of others. Research from the 1940s portrayed housewives as gatekeepers in charge of the family food channel during World War II. The technological gatekeeper, a couple decades later, characterized individuals participating in the flow of scientific and technological information through organizations.
Gatekeepers kept on reappearing with their different clothing and methods, as a function of the new gates that kept on changing. As an example, since software started eating the world (Andreessen, 2011), we are witnessing the spread of the software engineer, literally and figuratively through the web of the world.
In a world increasingly networked, we needed to optimize them to channel trust, to translate, filter noise and scale decisions. But as we measured their performance by the value they take from...
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