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> heavy users might be the first to see the fraying edges of the future to come. confusion, apathy, opportunistic tyranny to fill the void. This sounds like we're missing the "trusted editor" role. In a vaccuum of trusted editors, I'd like to see lineage information of all kinds of information saved, whether it be assertions, opinions, data, etc. This would be lineage metadata showing the evolution of a piece of information. All the way back to reproducible code or first source material. By "reproducible code", I mean a kind of code that does not exist yet today, but I hope to see, a Terraform/Pulumi-like <science/engineering/endeavor>-as-Code, expressing in automated code a way to reproduce or at best record in granular detail a scientific (chemistry, astronomy, climate, etc.), engineering (mechanical, pipefitting, construction, etc.), or human endeavor (legislation, law, regulatory compliance, etc.) conclusion or outcome. Then we'd have a path forward to automatically test the reproducibility of information, and at least have the automated start of the evaluation of "truth". We're in the infancy of the Internet's potential, and already the energetic and cognitive load is significantly, notably expensive to ascertain even the reproducibility of facts, not to speak of the veracity of information. I've toyed around with creating my own private information repository in the form of my own Internet Archive, tagging and adding metadata/metacommentary with my own private evaluations, as I've found myself increasingly taking notes of information I consume to avoid duplicating work I did earlier to find source material while establishing the veracity of what I'm consuming (which ranges from "damifino" to "I reproduced this first-hand"), but the notes are becoming too cumbersome to maintain in Emacs Org. |