A digital garden is not a file cabinet, nor is it fully an index. A digital garden is less so a well-kempt plot for farming and more a mess of entangled growth. It is a network of interconnected ideas and thoughts, clustered by how they are associated with each other.
jzhao • Networked Thought
Everything, as they say, is connected to everything else, and not neatly. There is no clearly determinable boundary between the sea and the land, between sociology and anthropology, between an automobile’s exhaust and your nose. There are only boundaries of word, thought, perception, and social agreement—artificial, mental-model boundaries.
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
Here’s Kevin Kelly, futurist and Wired founder and brilliant, brilliant man, pondering the future of the book: Over the next century, scholars and fans, aided by computational algorithms, will knit together the books of the world into a single networked literature. A reader will be able to generate a social graph of an idea, or a timeline of a... See more
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
Edgelessness is in the web’s structure: it’s comprised of individual pages linked together, so its structure can branch out forever.
Frank Chimero • Frank Chimero · The Web’s Grain
It would be like a search engine for ideas and concepts. Perhaps something like public roam graphs will be the solution to this, but there are infinite ways to approach it.