“One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future.” IfsKindLongBookTermNeededPagesPreparedResponseLibraryLong TermRejectsDevicesBe PreparedPrintedStorageProliferationSchemas Author:J. C. R. Licklider
“About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn something I needed to know. Much more time went into finding or obtaining information than into digesting it. Hours went into the plotting of graphs... When the graphs were finished, the relations were obvious at once, but the plotting had to be done in order to make them so.” ThinkingKnowsDoneScienceOrderHoursDecisionInformationPositionNeededFindingsRelationObviousFinishedMore TimeCentsObtainingGraphs Book:In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990 Source: In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990