zuzu on 4 Mar 2009 09:01:20 -0800 |
2009/3/4 Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com>: > On Tuesday 03 March 2009 05:05:07 pm bergman@merctech.com wrote: >> >> => if I need to act on it. Browser tabs, like EMACS buffers, are my >> => "working memory". > > I sort of do this, but rarely get beyond a dozen tabs. If I don't get to it > today, there is going to be even more tomorrow, and I won't have more time > tomorrow. By the next day there will be even more. I find that I can't get to > read /everything/ I want. If I don't get to stuff in a few days, the tabs get > closed, and I move on. > > Nothing personal, but 300-500 tabs seems like the electronic equivalent of > those recluse homes with newspapers and magazines piled six feet high > everywhere with just a maze to navigate to the refrigerator and the bathroom. The thing to remember is that networked computers act as externalized memory and augment our cognitive capacity. Just ask Doug Engelbart. I take it you're also not the sort who has over a terabyte of MP3s, or has OCR'd all their books into searchable PDFs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyLifeBits ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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