Comments on: Trees versus file cabinets http://blog.mindjet.com/2005/04/trees-versus-file-cabinets Software that helps people visualize and use information Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:51:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: Jack Krupansky http://blog.mindjet.com/2005/04/trees-versus-file-cabinets#comment-55 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:10:23 +0000 http://blog.mindjet.com/2005/04/trees-versus-file-cabinets#comment-55 Unfortunately, most of our hard-core knowledge really is locked in our minds and the two big high-growth communication tools (blogs and cell phones) are distinctly relatively low-bandwidth in the sense that it takes a fair amount of effort to get even a simple point across, let alone eploit the potential for collaboration. A decent blog post takes a lot of effort, relative to the time it takes to get your mind around the point you're trying to make. We do need much better tools to help us organize our thinking. We need to be able to integrate our minds and our machines so that thoughts can be transferred a little more efficiently than through the "keyholes" of our mouths and our fingertips. -- Jack Krupansky Unfortunately, most of our hard-core knowledge really is locked in our minds and the two big high-growth communication tools (blogs and cell phones) are distinctly relatively low-bandwidth in the sense that it takes a fair amount of effort to get even a simple point across, let alone eploit the potential for collaboration. A decent blog post takes a lot of effort, relative to the time it takes to get your mind around the point you’re trying to make.

We do need much better tools to help us organize our thinking. We need to be able to integrate our minds and our machines so that thoughts can be transferred a little more efficiently than through the “keyholes” of our mouths and our fingertips.

— Jack Krupansky

]]> by: Hobart Swan http://blog.mindjet.com/2005/04/trees-versus-file-cabinets#comment-57 Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:09:45 +0000 http://blog.mindjet.com/2005/04/trees-versus-file-cabinets#comment-57 Jack, True enough. It's silly, but I seem to gravitate again and again towards that scene in "Minority Report" where Tom Cruise is working that strange interface of his. I like the way mapping, in being so visual and immediate, stimulates parts of the brain that are not otherwise engaged by commonly used technology. To see a group of people "meet around a map" is pretty amazing to see: People can actually become very exhilarated to see something that moves as fast as the team's thought process. It's not perfect. Maybe, as with Mr. Cruise's amazing analytical machine, our interface needs to engage people more physically...a sort of dance between ideas, information and technology... Jack,
True enough. It’s silly, but I seem to gravitate again and again towards that scene in “Minority Report” where Tom Cruise is working that strange interface of his. I like the way mapping, in being so visual and immediate, stimulates parts of the brain that are not otherwise engaged by commonly used technology. To see a group of people “meet around a map” is pretty amazing to see: People can actually become very exhilarated to see something that moves as fast as the team’s thought process. It’s not perfect. Maybe, as with Mr. Cruise’s amazing analytical machine, our interface needs to engage people more physically…a sort of dance between ideas, information and technology…

]]> by: Don Ollsin http://blog.mindjet.com/2005/04/trees-versus-file-cabinets#comment-73 Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:17:20 +0000 http://blog.mindjet.com/2005/04/trees-versus-file-cabinets#comment-73 As regards the filing cabinet. I agree. I now beginning to use mindmaps to store my files relative to the project I am working on. Don As regards the filing cabinet. I agree. I now beginning to use mindmaps to store my files relative to the project I am working on. Don

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