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> Can you please tell me what it was trying to do?

It was magic for collaborative note taking. In lecture or if we divided up reading and summarisation. Also, of course, for scribbling together live memes.



It was a tool for massive information overload.

Imagine being able to experience all the instants of your life in a single moment. Now do that with information and the connections with other people on various topics. You can see the whole thing at once and it updates in realtime!

Now granted I had hundreds of waves going and most of them didn’t warrant full attention, but it always felt like drinking from the firehose.

It made me want to quit tech and take up pottery.




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