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This is a story without end. All the world is still an America. The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita—unknown territory.

Daniel J. Boorstin The Discoverers (1983)

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@pieratt 1 week

once a Memex user had created an associative trail, he or she could copy it and exchange it with others. This meant that the construction of trails would quickly become a community endeavor, which would over time produce a vast, ever-expanding, and ever more richly cross-linked web of all human knowledge.

M. Mitchell Waldrop The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (2001)

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@pieratt 1 week

been carrying this line around all week — it turns the whole question of productivity into a question of attention

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