The future form of exchanges could be based on tools that allow the connection of information around specific concepts and subjects, facilitating more efficient and open searching.
This is a topic I’ve found myself thinking a lot about recently, with regards to what the future of the academic ecosystem will look like. How will it be possible to evolve this ecosystem by using the growing capabilities to structure data into graphs?
Currently, academic ecosystems are very “linear” as you describe. This serves to exacerbate problems caused by the increasingly specialised and fragmented nature of the (in my case, mathematical) community.
I think tools like the ones you mentioned (and concepts like the second brain) support more “nonlinear” growth and connection of information. I’ve been using Notion for a couple of years (and a Remarkable tablet for a few months) and have found them to feel a lot more natural to grow ideas on. I believe that scaling this digital technology up to a community level would therefore facilitate more natural and thus fruitful exchanges between people.
This is a topic I’d really love to know more about from the digital engineering point of view. Am not familiar with all the tools you mentioned - thanks for bringing them to my attention :)
This is a topic I’ve found myself thinking a lot about recently, with regards to what the future of the academic ecosystem will look like. How will it be possible to evolve this ecosystem by using the growing capabilities to structure data into graphs?
Currently, academic ecosystems are very “linear” as you describe. This serves to exacerbate problems caused by the increasingly specialised and fragmented nature of the (in my case, mathematical) community.
I think tools like the ones you mentioned (and concepts like the second brain) support more “nonlinear” growth and connection of information. I’ve been using Notion for a couple of years (and a Remarkable tablet for a few months) and have found them to feel a lot more natural to grow ideas on. I believe that scaling this digital technology up to a community level would therefore facilitate more natural and thus fruitful exchanges between people.
This is a topic I’d really love to know more about from the digital engineering point of view. Am not familiar with all the tools you mentioned - thanks for bringing them to my attention :)