Curious about "topics the internet left behind," where there's tons of deep knowledge in old books, but most everything online's shallow & Yahoo Answers-like. Serious piano practice technique is a good example; culinary composition is another.
Why do some topics end up that way?
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Incidentally, on the serious piano practice point, I was pleased to stumble across this web book, which did actually present me with some interesting new ideas: tals-of-piano-practice.readthedocs.io/chapter1/index
e.g. on tremolos:
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I’d love to see these old ideas resurrected and connected into modern knowledge graphs. There’s so much value in old books.
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And historians.
I can see a huge demand for both effective navigation of and curation of knowledge and information.
Once the technologies are established. The work will be in creating data sets. Translating knowledge into data. Resurrecting the past.
Archaeology of Thought.
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Democratization of effort/talent (or perceived so); cognitive strain; inefficiency of medium (some are capable of learning skill in question, not from a book though); significant friction to identifying proper source/even framing the question. Liberal arts often about the last.
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Also, engineers and scientists believe half-life of info is very short. Theirs often is, deep human skills aren't (which they seldom know anything about). Oliver Sacks became Sacks via a highly-discouraged obsession w/19th cent. medical observation and insight. Made his work.
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i'm very curious, what's culinary composition? there's nothing very deep in search results
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I think it might be when you put sliced up hot dogs in your mac & cheese.
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Garage sales, & the 3rd story textbook section of Powell's books in Portland, are treasure troves of old textbooks full of knowledge like that.
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fascinating question! to me it seems the people that are best getting content on the web are the same people that are focused on building the web
and the content that does get online by non-web experts tends be on sites not-indexed by google or as you mentioned, very shallow
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People rarely consider the succession problem. Unless there are strong economic forces pulling knowledge through time it is usually lost 😢
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That's really interesting. Do you know of any knowledge, skills or behaviours that have been lost to antiquity?