Das beachtliche an diesem Beitrag: 1.

Das beachtliche an diesem Beitrag: 1. Die Metaphern von Cyberpunk und Virtual Reality sind in die subjektive Beschreibung der eigenen Erinnerung und Selbstwahrnehmung eingedrungen. 2. Wir romantisieren 20 Jahre alte technische Werkzeuge mit einem emotionalen Bezug, die für unsere Eltern immer noch Magie nach der Bestimmung von Arthur C. Clarke sind. http://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke Unsere Eltern mögen ähnlich für mechanische Schreibmaschinen oder Füllfederhalter empfinden. Nur an solchen scheinbar beiläufigen Bemerkungen erkennen wir die aberwitzige Geschwindigkeit unserer augenblicklichen Entwicklung.

Originally shared by Paul Allen

Someday I'd love to be the Librarian of Congress. My brain is wired to try to organize and make accessible everything that I know exists. Before founding Ancestry.com I started a Master's Degree in Library Science. I left the program when my CD ROM publishing company called Infobases - my first startup - started taking off. Our mission was to "digitize all the best books in every field of human knowledge and make them available on CD ROM." Yeah, I know. Google smoked us on that one. But remember, we started Infobases in 1990. And we did make the Inc. 500 in 1996.

So anyway, I love the Chrome browser for many reasons. It is my 2nd favorite software tool in the world for accessing information. My favorite is still my 1995 desktop software called Folio VIEWS version 3.14. No tool has ever touched that. It's like Evernote but 10x better. Even subsequent versions of Folio VIEWS weren't very good for personal knowledge management. I have 21 years of personal notes in a single 300MB file. Unfortunately, that software is not sold anymore, even though I think Microsoft owns the technology now.

Anyway, with Chrome I can get to all my favorite web sites faster (often with just 3-4 keystrokes) than with any other browser. And tab management is awesome. I prioritize the tabs I access most from left to right.

So today, I realized that of all the tabs that I have open on my desktop at all times, in the last few days I've replaced gmail with Google+ as the first tab on my screen. I consider that remarkable because I didn't do it consciously. I just realized a few minutes ago that subconsciously Google+ has become more important in many ways to me than Gmail. I want to use it - I have to do email. And since I can share anything with one person on Google+, in some ways its becoming a substitute for email.

(And by the way, if I'm ever appointed Librarian of Congress I won't rest until all the publications and reports and research ever done by the brilliant bi-partisan Congressional Research Service - perhaps some of the most valuable intellectual capital in the world - is made available to all the taxpaying citizens of the United States. Only 535 lawmakers and their staffs have full access to this knowledge base which is probably one of the most important knowledge bases assembled in the history of the world. Hundreds of Ph.D. do research and answer any questions lawmakers ask them. And then they don't share it with us. Bad form, I say. That brilliant body of research and analysis ought to be available to the voters as well as their representatives.)