Hello! I'm new here, so please forgive me if it's frowned upon to share things that you have yourself written. From what I've seen so far, Hubski seems to be an awesome, thoughtful community that has intelligent things to say—and we need more of that.
I recently published a post about the tools we use to think with; and how they haven't kept pace with the explosion of information brought on by the internet. What can we build that will "unblock" our mental pathways and allow us to become faster, clearer thinkers?
You take readers on a great journey in this piece. You selections of quotes is outstanding.
I am endlessly fascinated with the constant transformation we see today. I'm young, but even the generation below me has grown up completely dependent on the internet for socialization, research, and everything in between. I was listening to NPR and they noted the old school way of "cruising" in cars and socializing has been completely replaced by social media services like Twitter and Facebook. At least I learned how to find and read a book in the library.
As you pointed out, the problem with this is the inability to fully obtain and process the wealth of knowledge and information that is now available to us.
We need to increase our capacity to deal with this information. We need to digest more of what we’re reading. We need the modern day commonplace book.
This is the heart of the issue and reminds me of a couple recent things I read.
Connected UX is by Aarron Walter (the Director of User Experience at MailChimp) and he talks about how he managed a team and figure out how to deal with the abundance of data.
There is definite need for something to help people organize, collect and maintain their personal and professional lives. An organized system to bridge gaps between individuals, teams, communities. He turned to custom scripts, Evernote and gmail, but this isn't really a plausible solution to the majority. Really great read - I love reading about how people go about solving their problems.
Our mentality hasn't yet adapted to a rapidly changing world is a recent exceptional Hubski post by Seneca