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  • i annotate 2021
    • followed lightning talks, same speaker set
    • q&a
    • dan whaley starts with the 25 years question: really durable technologies last >25y. web has that; wikis are almost there. What's most important to think about note taking?
      • oliver sauter anything that lasts 25y requires sustained effort. an ability to iterate towards this.
      • conaw what's motivating the question? there seems to be an unspoken assumption that web/wiki technology is 25y old.
        • dan whaley what would define the note taking apps we use in 25y? what's most important about what we're about to build?
        • conor durability is an interesting idea: we are all benefitting from vannevar bush's memex and the mother of all demos.
          • web of alexandria (sp?): most durable knowledge storage is dna. it is constantly propagating.
          • roam exports to json and md to make data durable/portable.
          • memory diamonds (?)
      • ward cunningham certainly decentralization is needed. json is nice -- they claim it's not going to be versioned.
        • we wanted to do work in the wiki instead of just writing about it. we wanted to bundle data and processes.
        • different kinds of things got different markup -- we tried keeping the number of markups to a minimum.
      • conor white-sullivan keeping links outside the file will
      • junyu zhan predicting the future is hard but we can learn from history. let's take the web: why is it still around?
        • it's open
        • it's accessible to everyone
        • it evolves -- we have better browsers and protocols than before but the content remains
        • note taking applications will always change; but the data will be around for a long time.
      • bastien guerry git has been quite a change. it'll be 25y old in 9y :) versioning will be pervasive; perhaps git is the right infrastructure.
      • flancian "seeding" or bootstrapping problem. inclusivity, strength through diversity. I'd like whatever takes the place of the agora in 25y to be not only runnable but reimplementable by an interested 13yo with plenty of time. cooperative efforts. effective altruism.
      • daniel doyon