Workshopping the talk later today
I'm doing a tech sharing later today, and have been slowly converging on a topic of interest, but now is the time to draw the lines in the sand and nail down the logical structure. Specifically...
- What are tools for thought
- Dogma: what we accept without question
- Tools for thought: language, numerals, graphs
- Our r/s with such tools: not just for dumping and expressing our thoughts, but also for developing our thoughts. Similarly, they also constrain our thoughts.
eg. words on a text file
2. Have tools for thought evolved
- Dogma: IT has progressed, Moore's Law is evidence of it
- But has it?
- Mother of All Demo/ Sketchpad
- Bicycle for the mind
- But look at most popular apps and websites
- And the affordance of the iPad
- Alan Kay - what did he say
- Evolution optimises for replication and longevity of the species, and satisfices on everything else, including quality of ideas and quality of life for the individual
- The 4 predictions/ most fertile period was the 60's and 70's because nobody knew anything, and they know that
- The 3 dimensions of thought, how we are constrained
3. How creators can and are creating better tools for thought
- Memory
- Direct manipulation of data and time
- Linked notes
- Economics jupyter notebook
- Interactive papers
- Augmenting human intelligence with AI
4. Thoughts for users of such tools
- Our value as knowledge workers originate from the quality of our thoughts
- Be aware of how our tools of thought enable as well as constrain us
- Question dogma, jump out of the box, leverage tools to see better