Laura Smart wrote:
|> ... the issue is less about what a library owns.
|> ... It is more than search. It is discover, re-discover,
|> use, compare & contrast, evaluate, review, edit, supplement, share,
|> print, save, delete, update, find more like this one, suggest, tag,
|> blog, organize, remember, remind, annotate, outline, collaborate.
|
|I can conceive of a world where everybody gets their own custom tool,
|or suite of tools to do the tasks Eric lists.
Sounds a bit like Vannever Bush's "Memex" machine from over 60 years ago
and Ted Nelson's original concept of hypertext from over 40 years ago
(and his Project Xanadu to implement it). When it comes to
interconnecting data, I guess it's true that what goes around comes
around.
Harvey
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Received on Tue May 01 2007 - 18:21:48 EDT