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Am I getting the idea behind this correctly? The idea is embedding content in one stream from different sources? It seems like folks here are skeptical, but...

Am I getting the idea behind this correctly? The idea is embedding content in one stream from different sources? It seems like folks here are skeptical, but... we're seeing a growing trend towards this. Nevermind the origins of hypertext, look at the more modern timeline: - tiddlywiki encouraging bite-sized references that stack on top of each other in one view - The growing popularity of digital zettelkasten(s?) such as Roam or Obsidian. Backlink views and embedding snippets are at least similar. - Finally, the block protocol: https://blockprotocol.org/ https://blockprotocol.org/ Is this going to be something where people look back on this and say "if only it had been understood earlier, we'd have had $whatever_is_after_block_protocol sooner" ?

mikewarot 4y ago
>Is this going to be something where people look back on this and say "if only it had been understood earlier, we'd have had $whatever_is_after_block_protocol sooner" ? Yes, in the July, 1945 issue of "The Atlantic", the editor prefixes "As We May Think" with this: As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. For years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind. Trip hammers that multiply the fists, microscopes that sharpen the eye, and engines of destruction and detection are new results, but not the end results, of modern science. Now, says Dr. Bush, instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages. The perfection of these pacific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge from their war work. Like Emerson's famous address of 1837 on "The American Scholar," this paper by Dr. Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge. — THE EDITOR [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/

mikewarot 4y ago

>Is this going to be something where people look back on this and say "if only it had been understood earlier, we'd have had $whatever_is_after_block_protocol sooner" ? Yes, in the July, 1945 issue of "The Atlantic", the editor prefixes "As We May Think" with this: As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. For years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind. Trip hammers that multiply the fists, microscopes that sharpen the eye, and engines of destruction and detection are new results, but not the end results, of modern science. Now, says Dr. Bush, instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages. The perfection of these pacific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge from their war work. Like Emerson's famous address of 1837 on "The American Scholar," this paper by Dr. Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge. — THE EDITOR [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/