What if scholars & fans aided by computational algorithms, could knit together the books of the world into a single networked literature? If a reader could generate a social graph of an idea, or timeline of a concept, or a networked map of influence for anything in the library.
Prediction: in 20 years it’ll be considered silly & selfish to have conversations focused on(non-private)information exchange that aren’t recorded
Why not contribute to the continuously evolving collective body of knowledge?
We’ll build positive sum structures incentivizing it
think we'll see both extremes - a lot of stuff made private, and a lot of stuff made public. interesting to note that this tweet was from 2020, before the big rise in LLMs. a normal response to from media cos and others to foundational models crawling the web is to make more things private.