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To Organize The World's Information
Clay Shirky, an expert on the sociology and economics of the Internet, has estimated that Wikipedia currently represents around 100 million man-hours of devoted effort in writing and editing. But even if you could print Wikipedia in its entirety, its hyperlinks replaced by cross-referenced page numbers, you’d still be a far cry from a manual enabli... See more
Lewis Dartnell • The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm
Google changed the world with the realization that even though the crowd’s online content was uncontrolled, it wasn’t disorganized. It, in fact, had an extremely elaborate and fine-grained structure, but not one that was consciously decided on by any core group of humans. Instead, it was a structure that emerged from
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
Organizing is going to become unnecessary because no one actually wants to go back and look at their old notes.
What you really want is the information in your notes, synthesized and presented to you at the right place and at the right time.