I am very interested in this problem. Technology is a double-edged sword; it is only ever a means. What ends do you prescribe? TW does something valuable in this space. What should it be? Where ought we go?
On Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 7:36:08 AM UTC-4, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > I'm old and worn out. > > In the early days of the emergence of the net there was a whole > sub-culture exploring "qualitative" data. What happened was that Google and > other "Net Machines" took that work and implemented it as "quantative". > > Google makes no differentiation now. Your qualitative it makes quantative, > whatever it is. That is part of its brilliance. And its horror. > > The residual issue is that the "open edge" gets closed. But that is > exactly what should not have happened. > > Few people now understand the impetus towards "text-bases" (TW can be > thought of as a "text-base") which recorded "EXPERIENCE", rather than > "data-bases", which recorded the STATS of DOINGS. > > IMO, this issue is still alive, but muted in the avalanch of SERVER > SAYINGS which are actually very partial. But DRIVING too much. Smothering > the still live issue. > > No technology is innocent now. > > Josiah > In deep(ish) thought > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/77f5be61-3704-4287-8a0f-5143212f85ab%40googlegroups.com.