notes-informationOverload

UNDER CONSTRUCTION: just notes, for now

age of binding

http://deepfreeze9.blogspot.com/2007/02/digitaldirt-differences-loose-ends.html to this i might add "linkability", i.e. the network topology

scholar, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scholar defn 3, "a learned person"

research, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/research , Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, et cetera; laborious or continued search after truth. but not, as is claimed in http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research&oldid=391444438#Research_methods , "to produce __new__ knowledge"

librarian (cite Fire upon the deep) http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=librarian&oldid=10648274, 3, "A person who processes and organizes information"

learn, then summarize,

find, then link,

rather than produce new knowledge

connect different fields

vinge's "golden age" scenario

i/o bandwith problem

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principals of organization in a connection/information overloaded world



look at how verbose eg Kant was. Look at how verbose even Engels was. Perhaps back then there was less information overload (or information overload had been happening for less long), so ppl didnt yet feel it was important to write concisely? not sure about that though...


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