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Navigate, don't search
But very few interfaces do a brilliant job of the third need: showing me where I've been and how I got here. We can do it at small scales. Patterns like breadcrumbs help us navigate through website or wiki with lots of subpages, but those don't scale well beyond ~7 steps.
Historical Trails
the internet is now so embedded within the human developmental process.
it's not merely a collection of servers and clients.
its evolutions shape us with each passing generation.
in turn, we shape its evolution, feeding into what it has fed us.
it follows from 4E cogsci that app/site interfaces will drastically affect our cognitive development. at leas
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