📽️ Cognitive mapping
- “Information overload” goes back at to least the 40s
- Vannevar Bush’s memex ( 1945)
- Information storage technologies to the human brains are found in 19th century writing
- Paul Otlet’s “mechanical world brain” ( Le Deuff & Perret, 2019
- Cognitive maps are responses to late capitalism’s disorientation ( Chun, 2011)
- Growing class of knowledge workers within cognitive capitalism ( Boutang, 2011)
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The growing market for these solutions also comes as no surprise: As Wendy Chun (2011) has argued through Jameson, cognitive maps like these networks of notes are always-limited attempts to become oriented within the invisible relations of late capitalism. Considering how we are now living in a time where thought itself is labour in today’s growing knowledge economy—a time which Moulier Boutang (2011) terms cognitive capitalism–it makes sense that there is a large market of people looking to build a “second brain” to help support or outsource this work.