Excerpts from my new textbook: Information Theory and the Human Mind

"As information becomes more easily accessible, the value of being able to recall that information in response to a stimulus (such as definition of an obscure word) drops while the value of being able to recall that information in an generative context (such as trying to come up with the best word to phrase a sentence) holds steady. However, the value of knowing a particular piece of information in a generative context will easily rise or fall based upon its relation to the environment in which the individual is."

We don't need to wait for the future for the human brain to be hooked up to a computer; the Wikipedia Age has already started that process.


Anonymous
11/15/2008
03:16:00 PM