Having all this information available at my fingerprints does more than help me find my notes faster. Yes, when I'm trying to track down an article I wrote many years ago, it's now much easier to retrieve. But the qualitative change lies elsewhere: in finding documents I've forgotten about altogether, documents that I didn't know I was looking for.

The New York Times > Steven Johnson > Tool For Thought. Der Autor von Everything Bad Is Good For You (oder: Warum popular culture doch gut für uns ist) darüber, wie Suchmaschinen und digitale Archive seine Texte und sein Arbeiten verändert haben. Schon etwas älter, dennoch sehr lesenswert, wenn man das irgendwie interessant finden sollte.