The year is now 2025 — but only according to one of the world's many different calendars.
So here's what the year is, right now, according to some of the others...
@culturaltutor #NewYear #2025
“Evernote to OneNote, Moleskins to Field Notes, Roam to Obsidian. We blame the tools, the techniques. Surely they’re to blame. A new app will be better.
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Yet maybe the apps worked all along by letting us forget. We didn’t need bookmarks and notes as much as we needed the safety of letting go. Anywhere we could save our thoughts was enough.”
1994: "Soon we'll all have pocket computers that connect us to all human knowledge!"
2024: "Here's a video of someone making ragebait food while spreading misinformation set to a sped-up chipmunk voice."
“We apply theories of human cognitive capabilities and limitations to understand how computers can best provide such cognitive support. The interdisciplinary nature of this work is reflected in the term cognitive engineering.”