Will the RIM Profession become obsolete?

I've been dropping wisdom bombs all over the internet, and I wanted to share some of the posts and my thoughts with you. This week, let's talk about the future of the records and information management profession. 


Will the RIM Profession Become Obsolete? by Mark Mandel. 


Mark writes "One discussion point revolved around how this will change the RIM profession.  One board member made a very thought provoking statement: "In five years there will be no more RIM profession!"

She said this because she sees our profession evolving significantly with the advent of electronic records management, changing requirements for retention based on electronic storage and the cloud, auto classification and the like."

I responded:

"The amount and volume of information that we have to manage is still growing at an exponential rate. You don't have to be a genius to figure that one out, just look at your inbox / growing repositories. As the volume of information increases, the science of managing it becomes even more important. If you can't find something, how useful can information be?

I think a better summation is that in 5 years, the RIM profession will have evolved into something different, but it won't be dead."

Do you agree? Disagree? Wonder what the heck RIM is? Leave a comment below and join the discussion.