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stevenberlinjohnson.com: Anatomy Of An Idea - 1 views

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shared by Brett Boessen on 19 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • All these new tools are incredible for making rapid-fire discoveries and associations, but you need a broad background of knowledge to prime you for those discoveries
    • Brett Boessen
      Brett Boessen on 19 Dec 11
       
      Sounds like a nod to liberal education to me.
  • It's the social life of information, in John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid's wonderful phrase -- we just have so many more ways of being social now
  • people who think the Web is killing off serendipity are not using it correctly
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • this simple, but amazing fact: almost none of this--Twitter, blogs, PDFs, eBooks, Google, Findings--would have been intelligible to a writer fifteen years ago
  • Brett Boessen on 19 Dec 11
     
    Lovely mapping of the social development of an idea.   One of his takeaways, point 3, is essentially that one ought to be as liberally educated as possible (though he doesn't use that phrase).
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