Catholicgauze stirs the pot with an essay on the future of GIS and its increasing separation from Geography. Key graf:

With [Geographic Information Science] focusing only on GIS the whole reason GIS exists, to study spatial phenomenon, is kicked out the door. When GIS is the pinacle of everything geography loses. What is happening is that many GIS users have no knowledge of geography. With a few clicks of a button a GIS jockey can describe data’s distribution but cannot explain why things are the way they are. A monkey can do that work.

I don’t have a dog in this race — I have no ties to either academe or the GIS industry — but would like to know your take. (Time to test the comments!)