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Yes, Bush was clever. But that's not so interesting. I think it's more interesting to think about the big, broad fundamental questions he was addressing, and how far we are from really solving them.
How to manage information overload? What are the real bottlenecks? How can we make vastly better computer note taking systems? Why haven't we gone beyond the file metaphor? How can we build better personal memory systems? Better collective memory systems? So many great problems!
Very interesting thread Michael. I'll take this opportunity to say that out of everything I've tried and/or come across @TiddlyWiki has been by far the best solution for my version of information overload, particularly because of how easy it is to customize to *how my mind works*
Yep, TiddlyWiki is great. I've never quite gotten it to work for me, but it's clear lots of people love it. Evernote too, for a slightly different crowd.
I think it’s interesting that every generation feels like they are faced with info overload. There’s a bit in Alvin Weinberg’s “Reflections on Big Science” (1967) where he laments the deluge of papers from the growing number of journals in the 1950s-60s.
I explain (a bit telegraphically) why that happens in the thread; it has almost nothing to do with the quantity of information. Ann Blair has a book on information overload in the 1500s:https://www.amazon.com/Too-Much-Know-Scholarly-Information/dp/0300165390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522298004&sr=8-1&keywords=ann+blair …
I wrote about it in 2015: The Memex is not psychologically or sociologically realistic. Though Bush was writing in 1945, his vision seemed Victorian: a facade of proper intellectualism with no grounding in the less dapper side of human nature. One can hardly imagine multimedia…
…beyond classical music and Old Master paintings emanating from the Memex. Bush used the effectiveness of Turkish bows in the crusades as an example of what one could research with the Memex. He missed the target. 2/3
So long as conciousness in a human mind is limited to about a 20,000/th of a second, the increase of knowledge will continue to outpace even very effective personal knowledge maps / memory systems. A hard problem indeed.
For the time being I think of it as a spiritual challenge rather than *tools or techniques* in the impetus it gives to acknowledge we can never know all we wish to and thus, more willingly accept our dependence on others.
I think 3 others you missed r Ashby,who wrote a couple scattered chapters on IA. Licklider: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html … (which I think presents a more solid vision than the memex) and the most inspiring (& anticipated alot!) of all for me was Sec 3 of Vinge's https://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/book98/com.ch1/vinge.singularity.html …
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