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Interesting and ambitious article that (it seems) ultimately aims to place the current deluge of different note-taking apps into its total historical, social an
by stareatgoats 4y ago
Interesting and ambitious article that (it seems) ultimately aims to place the current deluge of different note-taking apps into its total historical, social and technological perspective.
It seems we are at the cusp of something in the "Tools for Thought" domain - the question is what comes next because something big is likely about to happen. The article doesn't answer that AFAICS, but it does lay some solid groundwork IMO.
- yummypaint 4y agoMath and writing are probably the most important mental tools developed so far. Math has allowed us to escape the limits of our own intuition, and computers are basically math and writing machines. The general evolution seems to be coupling the automated stuff more tightly to human input. The ultimate prize might be to complete the circle by making these outsourced computations feel more internal. Mental arithmetic -> Paper spreadsheets -> computer spreadsheets -> spreadsheets with neural interface?