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- Jan 2022
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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The essay is most famous for its description of a hypothetical information-retrieval system, the Memex, a kind of mechanical Evernote, in which a person's every "book, record, or communication" was microfilmed and cataloged.
It really kills me that there's so much hero worship of all this, particularly given the information processing power of index card systems at the time. I don't really think it took such a leap to image automating such a system given the technological bent of the time.
Of course actually doing it is another thing, but conceptualizing the idea at the time would have be de rigueur.
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- May 2021
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www.theverge.com www.theverge.com
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Imagine you could take those Lego pieces and put them in any place you wanted: in emails, in chats, in other apps,
This sounds like Apple's OpenDoc project, which Doug Engelbart also seems to have mentioned here.
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- May 2019
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dougengelbart.org dougengelbart.org
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The individual does not use this information and this processing to grapple directly with the sort of complex situation in which we seek to give him help. He uses his innate capabilities in a rather more indirect fashion, since the situation is generally too complex to yield directly to his motor actions, and always too complex to yield comprehensions and solutions from direct sensory inspection and use of basic cognitive capabilities.
The mention here of "innate capabilities" and the importance to yielding motor actions toward complex challenges, is noted. A question arises, regarding "basic cognitive capabilities" and their role in the process?
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