His excursions may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the manifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand, with some assurance that he can find them again if they prove important.
hey that's what I said at the beginning of this piece
if the user inserted 5000 pages of material a day it would take him hundreds of years to fill the repository, so he can be profligate and enter material freely.
It's interesting that this machine focuses on retrieval of a person's personal memories, whereas we're more concerned with retrieving other people's ideas from the internet and from archives
yet even in its present bulk we can hardly consult it
he had no idea man
With machines for advanced analysis no such situation existed; for there was and is no extensive market
machines for advanced analysis forced their way into the extensive market by becoming more familiar and user-friendly, but they are still essentially the same machine
relegated to the machine.
this is interesting in thinking about current ideas about what should be relegated to machines-- thinking about the debates around whether or not AI can really create art
A girl strokes its keys languidly and looks about the room and sometimes at the speaker with a disquieting gaze.
can we dig into his thing about girls and keys
Mere compression, of course, is not enough; one needs not only to make and store a record but also be able to consult it
now our problem is navigating the sheer amount of things compressed and actually being able to effectively consult them
The investigator is staggered by the findings and conclusions of thousands of other workers—conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, much less to remember, as they appear. Yet specialization becomes increasingly necessary for progress, and the effort to bridge between disciplines is correspondingly superficial.
reminds me of our discussion about the move away from the 'solitary genius' of western tradition to a more collaborative approach towards knowledge-building in which everyone specializes in something different
burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership.
interesting that Bush characterizes the war as little more than an 'exhilarating' blip in the careers of professional scientists
It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
This is a really interesting way to think about smartphones/tablets; there's less of a burden on us to carry a ton much information in our minds because it's so easy to pull out our phones and reference almost anything in the world.