Vastly, vastly different things. Throw everything in your home/office into a huge drawer and try finding that one tax receipt from 2012. Sounds fun? Now imagi

Vastly, vastly different things. Throw everything in your home/office into a huge drawer and try finding that one tax receipt from 2012. Sounds fun? Now imagine tree-organized file cabinets. You look up the labels: Personal finance, tax stuff, 2012. Found it. If done right, its basically O(n) x O(log n). With N being very big and your seek time being very bad. Its not because people lost the ability/knowledge/patience/etc to do this that makes it the same as the mess we have now. Sadly, I think its more likely we'll increasingly rely on AI helpers to do the mental work for us (like already happens on Google Photos) instead of putting in the effort with something like a file structure again. I think its gone.