Entropy of Mapping

As time passes it is always increasing. It's the only scientific phenomenom that has a direction in time, essentially the universal clock. Somehow today I find myself pondering entropy, you may ask yourself, "How could this possibly relate to GIS or mapping." I'm really not sure I am capable of answering that question at this point in time, but I am certain that there is something to be said of the relationship between our attempts at ordering and categorizing our world and the natural rival idea of entropy.

Perhaps the idea that our geospatial snapshots are somehow capturing the essence of space as it will never truly be again. GIS will one day be the great keeper of all things resource driven. How much of our earth needs to be alloted for things like timber production, food production, comfortable living space, etc. How does entropy effect these things? Well in a practical sense it really does more than most of us realize, perhaps a better way of thinking of it though would be an enourmous mass and energy balance. These geographically related chemical and physical models seem at times to be futuristic pipedreams. I assure you they are not. Geospatial modelling will be a much bigger topic than cloning, mapping the genome, etc. in the very near future. What do you think?