📓 how can we develop transformative tools for thought.md by @flancian ☆

an [[article]].
- #pull [[how can we develop transformative tools for thought?]]
- by [[andy mathuschak]] and [[michael nielsen]]
- #go https://numinous.productions/ttft
- [[references]]
  - [[alan kay]] #1989
  - [[douglas engelbart]] #1962
  - [[vannevar bush]]
  - [[seymour papert]]
  - [[ivan sutherland]]
- on the term [[tools for thought]]
  - [[kenneth iverson]] introduced the term [[tools for thought]] in [[notation as a tool of thought]] regarding [[APL]]
    - but (this is me):
      - … except he didn’t maybe? :) he uses [[tool of thought]] instead, consistently.
      - The syntagm "for thought" doesn’t appear even once in the paper.
      - "of thought" seems to give thought agency in a way that is interesting? instead of sounding like the product of the tool.
    - They prefer [[medium for thought]] sometimes though, like to keep their options open. Makes sense.
- [[memory systems]]
  - [[mnemonic medium]]
  - example: [[quantum country]]