{"id":956,"date":"2010-12-08T21:33:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T21:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/?p=956"},"modified":"2010-12-09T09:16:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T09:16:27","slug":"cognitive-extension-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/2010\/12\/08\/cognitive-extension-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Extension, part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is (slowly) dawning on me as I look at some of the earlier hypertext systems, that some of them were, in some ways, all about cognitive extension. And when I say &#8220;earlier&#8221;, I mean those that have been tried out in the past, already. Namely, Memex and NoteCard. What I don&#8217;t mean is that NoteCard is an earlier version of the Web. If anything, it seems to be a second generation hypermedia system, while the Web (I&#8217;m starting to think) is a first generation system.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking the Memex, for example, which was to support and supplement one&#8217;s memory, is a cognitive extension just as the notebook of the person with Alzheimer&#8217;s during his visit to the Museum (those who understand that reference, know what I&#8217;m talking about).<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the NoteCard computer environment wasn&#8217;t built to replace the intellectual creative process, but to support it. To help make sense of ideas, manage and present them.<\/p>\n<p>So is the Web a tool a cognitive extension?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is (slowly) dawning on me as I look at some of the earlier hypertext systems, that some of them were, in some ways, all about cognitive extension. And when I say &#8220;earlier&#8221;, I mean those that have been tried out in the past, already. Namely, Memex and NoteCard. What I don&#8217;t mean is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4379,426,124,4381,4382],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cognition","tag-cognitive-extension","tag-hypertext","tag-memex","tag-notecard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}