TT, You sat: *Technology is great but every new level increases complexity. *
But as it matures it allows you to collapse this complexity into new general forms. A Re-simplification can take place. This appears how the brain and evolution of technology works, broaden understanding by broader solutions, then successive levels of abstraction, we learn from each iteration. I have a book idea based on this "Occam's Electric shaver". Regards Tony On Monday, 26 October 2020 21:57:22 UTC+11, TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > Ciao Chuck > > Part of it is technology. > > Technology is great but every new level increases complexity. > > I tend to favour (hand) WRITING as its a pretty nice technology since > decent graphite came along. Though chalk was awful. > > But sure, the printing press, later, did allow me to reproduce some > pamphlets so more than Mildred could read them. > > With the advent of the internet I did think, for a while, that > reproduction got even cheaper & effective. > Well IT DID. But it is SERIOUSLY INSUFFICIENT. > > The problem is/was the SWAMP effect. > Now, Mildred spends much of her time reading the "The Lost Cat Columns" > rather than yours truly. > > Just a comment > TT > > > > On Saturday, 24 October 2020 16:04:59 UTC+2, Chuck R. wrote: >> >> I wouldn't say making publishing easy stifles creativity but it sure >> lowers the signal to noise ratio quite a bit. There's just a whole lot more >> junk to sift through now to find something that is quality. >> >> On Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 12:34:37 PM UTC-4 [email protected] >> wrote: >> >>> hey all, I came across this article called "how the blog broke the web. >>> https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/ >>> >>> I found it to be a fascinating expose of how the web became boring once >>> services like Livejournal and Blogger made it easy for people to create >>> journals, which in turn stifled creativity by templatizing journal entries. >>> It got my gears turning to one, Wordpress; and two, today's trend of 'no >>> code' webpages. Are we stifling creativity by making it *too *easy to >>> use the Web? Are we doomed to live in a world of Tic Toc videos? And >>> lastly, it got me thinking about my tiddlywiki and the customization >>> options available that I haven't spent much time exploring yet :) >>> >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/81583d4e-8b40-4f8e-a12c-10334ab922eao%40googlegroups.com.
