Imagine living back in the 60s and reading this?

A fundamental hypothesis of the proposed approach is that the ability of a given human to control the real-time external manipulation of symbols, in response to the minute-by-minute needs of his thought processes, has a profound effect upon the whole structure of concepts and methods utilized in his intellectual activity.

How have we lived up to such tech idealism way back in the day? It is a shame, that tech's brightest minds are investing the energy in creating more efficient Machine Learning techniques in order to trick us to go through more ads.

I really appreciate articles such as this, because we can realize how far off course we have gone with technology. And that the simple aspect of information retrieval, and symbol manipulation is transformative for our intellect. Giving us the ability to recombine thoughts never imagined before!

The areas should involve a limited domain of information, and limited external-world interaction, to keep the system we are studying within a manageable scope.

Notice- that this quote didn't say unlimited information, but instead limited information.. because the information we interact with on a daily basis, is highly more than a human being is capable of withstanding.

I almost wish there was a setting for us on our phones to set an information retrieval capacity.. just as there as a set time limit for days.