Month: July 2021
I wonder about the academic/neurological discourse around the ability to think of the best term for search results. The base logic is you can’t use a word that’ll be common in most or all results, so you dig deeper and try to yank the term or combination of terms that’ll be exclusive to the specific result you’re after. What kind of training does this require, and is it important in a future where we’re so reliant on search engines to know information? Why retain anything except a list of terms and how they may be be applied to acquiring information for the immediate future, versus attempting to accrue and memorize information to access it directly from the mind? And what about the serotonin hit from hunting for that elusive search result and finally finding the right combination of terms, or the frustrating depression of not getting that satisfaction?
I wonder about the academic/neurological discourse around the ability to think of the best term for search results. The base logic is you can’t use a word that’ll be common in most or all results, so you dig deeper and try to yank the term or combination of terms that’ll be exclusive to the specific result you’re after. What kind of training does this require, and is it important in a future where we’re so reliant on search engines to know information? Why retain anything except a list of terms and how they may be be applied to acquiring information for the immediate future, versus attempting to accrue and memorize information to access it directly from the mind? And what about the serotonin hit from hunting for that elusive search result and finally finding the right combination of terms, or the frustrating depression of not getting that satisfaction?
Another Natty Ice convert.
Another Natty Ice convert.
House Rochow (1929-30) in Caputh, Germany, by Heinrich Laurenz Dietz