While "kairos" has not, as yet, been discussed in terms of computer technology, the term has re-emerged in the modern rhetorical academy, primarily due to the work of James Kinneavy, who re-introduced it as meaning, roughly, "situational context." But the word has multiple meanings, each lending itself to multiple interpretations.

Kinneavy, with Catherine Eskin, has provided something of a framework for diving into into the semantic and linguistic subtleties of interpretation of the original Greek in "Kairos in Aristotle's Rhetoric." While Kinneavy reiterates his belief that Kairos has been a "neglected concept" (cf. 1986) in the field of rhetorical studies, he and Eskin assert that it has become a more acceptable term to utilize, due primarily--and ironically, given the ideas and processes which have generated this journal--to "timely advances in computer-aided referencing." (Kinneavy and Eskin 132)