Sublime

From the memex to the web to wikis to org-mode to Project Xanadu to attempts to make a map of every thought a person thinks: the augmentation of memory has been an extremely generative vision for computing.

This suggests to me the need for a separate field of human augmentation. That field will take input from cognitive science. But it will fundamentally be a design science, oriented toward bold, imaginative design, and building systems from prototype to large-scale deployment.

Just noticed someone becoming discretely smarter. Pressed them about it. Finally we zoomed into it: they’ve been doing “Ideal Parent Figure through ChatGPT”. Human augmentation in my life time. Amazing.

• Memory Augmentation Surgeon