I was thinking about blogs/thoughts as collections, and how they are kind of similar to museums... in that there really isn't a comprehensive way to go about looking at them all. But then maybe I'm the only one who gets lost in museums... there is rarely a left-to-right, now you're done characteristic to museums, so you can never see it all.
Of course, sitting here thinking about exhibits changing behind you, I guess book collections are the same way, adding and weeding parts of the collection all the time.
I think the reason I was thinking that there will have to be a way to just reach out and touch (with a thought) the desired knowledge, is that there's no way, and really no reason, to collect every single blog/thought together in one place. Maybe once we break that barrier, the great Alexandrian library will just be in the "plane" with us. Need to build a sundial? here are the plans. Need to know why he wants to build a sundial? here ya go. All of our current systems of categorization are so cumbersome, try so hard to control the information, when it's obviously growing beyond any control. The google idea of searching has to be pretty close to the next level, to reaching out to grab a piece of knowledge. Just a matter of using the software with more interfaces than keyboards and eyes (voice recognition, brain/thought waves).
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