(Stretch goal: this will eventually displace the university system as a distributed knowledge network.)
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Posit: More people will get paid to be archivists/historians over the next 3-5 years. Someone needs to digest all the knowledge we've created.
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Maybe, but they'll probably keep paying the archivists for short-term/part-time gigs rather than full-time full-benefited positions. :(
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I hope not! I'm in a very lucky position, but it's my hope that as "curating knowledge" gains social value more broadly, more companies and organizations will hire them FT
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I'd hope so too. But I do worry about employing historians and archivists to further a curated story beneficial to those companies with the largest purses. All archiving is curation, of course, but I'd like to see less knowledge work dictated by corporate entities, not more.
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Yep, totally depends on the org. I'm interested in seeing knowledge curation roles distributed across sectors, including but not primarily at companies
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I agree that this is increasingly an important and difficult job, but I’m not so convinced that proportionate funding will flow towards it
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I doubt they'll get paid for that exact job description. But curation seems to go hand-in-hand with reputation, and reputation attracts funding
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This reminds me of
@ESYudkowsky 's job post for a 'Walking Library' -- A somewhat scaled up version might be a Patreon for 'Learning in Public' where subscribers get AMAs and lectures/compressions, whilst shaping the learning roadmap.pic.twitter.com/dwP9WDcB5Y
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oh wow I love this idea! I wonder if they filled it.
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I’m biased but I think these people DO already exist: long-term academics at the forefront of their field; seems like hiring one as consultant to call on-demand is viable solution. im(biased)o it’s really hard to fit those requirements w/out being an active producer in the field
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in theory it’s possible but to find, hire, and retain such a person is like trying to take the product of 3 unicorn events
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one hybrid solution is for the job description of the future archivists/librarians to be folks who are *excellent* at forging ties with those at the forefronts of their respective fields, and keeping those ties up to date as fields evolve over time
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i like this definition very much, it's not just about synthesis of legible info (from books/papers) but also illegible (gleaned from convos/coffee) -- I wonder there's a way for effectively mapping people's 'skills/knowledge' in a more granular way, to aid coordination
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I hear a bunch of people are getting paid to “organize the world’s information.”
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Future historians will have to be experts at hexdumping files to reverse engineer long forgotten binary formats
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