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2005-01-30-qualimembrance

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Steven Johnson on his use of DEVONthink as Tool for Thought: in the NY Times, on his weblog. [ Ø SMLF • ]

"[T]he qualitative change lies elsewhere: in finding documents I've forgotten about altogether, documents that I didn't know I was looking for."

"Now, strictly speaking, who is responsible for that initial idea? Was it me or the software? It sounds like a facetious question, but I mean it seriously. Obviously, the computer wasn't conscious of the idea taking shape, and I supplied the conceptual glue that linked the London sewers to cell metabolism. But I'm not at all confident I would have made the initial connection without the help of the software. The idea was a true collaboration, two very different kinds of intelligence playing off each other, one carbon-based, the other silicon."

Synergetic Intelligence.