> Perhaps there is a clever philosophical analogy in there somewhere about "us becoming the machine" or "the map becoming the territory", but I can't put my fin

> Perhaps there is a clever philosophical analogy in there somewhere about "us becoming the machine" or "the map becoming the territory", but I can't put my finger on it. I personally believe the key is in "information architecture". We have been conveying information as a linear sequence of words for so long that we don't know yet how to best exploit non-linear formats. Programming languages harness the relation between specific instructions and the structure on which they are embedded; but this structure is oriented towards building a single executable block that controls a machine step by step. We have yet to build tools equivalent to IDEs to better exploit the overall structure of knowledge, but for the goal of understanding a topic at all levels of detail, bot at the local flow of ideas and the overall relation between its subtopics. The first widespread step in that direction was the 1.0 static World Wide Web, and we have learnt a lot thanks to it so we can now improve upon it. I have great hopes in online notebooks and no-code spreadsheet-like tools as the basis of such information-processing environments.