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If you promote things like this as research tools, ways to extract technical information quickly from complex documents, hey cool. Trying to frame your product
by jxdxbx 3y ago
If you promote things like this as research tools, ways to extract technical information quickly from complex documents, hey cool. Trying to frame your product as an alternative to "traditional reading" makes me want to barf.
- kordlessagain 3y agoYet, consuming books and websites will fundamentally change in the next few years. There is little reason to have nausea over alternate forms of content consumption.
- SpaceManNabs 3y agoConsuming always changes. The process for internalizing knowledge stays the same. It will always be in-depth deliberate practice, spaced repetition or repeated use, and time. When you rely on something else to chunk the knowledge for you, you aren't doing the work. These tools will be great when they don't miss the details relevant to you, but how are you getting the signal when they do miss details for you? Same thing with Plato and writing. Writing did not limit memory for those that treated writing as a tool. Writing enabled the throughput of putting stuff into long term memory for many scholars. It also encouraged new ways of work. But a reference or summary could never replace what you put in your head.
- flangola7 3y agoIn a few years knowledge work will not be the domain of humans, the same way transporting heavy building supplies is no longer the domain of oxen and donkeys. We may still ingest knowledge for our own amusement but it won't serve any practical purpose.
- koboll 3y agoSkimming has been a valid alternative to traditional reading under certain circumstances since the dawn of the written word; I don't see why this is any more offensive.