Courtney exactly described how I learned things as a kid - the delightful project of jumping from one encyclopedia volume to the next, slow but fascinating research, and a dozen happy discoveries along the way. That pursuit is probably one of the reasons I became a librarian!
So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.
February 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Courtney exactly described how I learned things as a kid - the delightful project of jumping from one encyclopedia volume to the next, slow but fascinating research, and a dozen happy discoveries along the way. That pursuit is probably one of the reasons I became a librarian!