[ExI] TECH: Hypermediated Mind Map

[Bryan Bishop]

On Sunday 03 August 2008, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> That is relatively flat like most mind maps.  I would very much love
>   to have a tool that extends this to 3-D and more.  It would be
> great to blend in semantic network or concept maps with multiple
> information bearing edges including connection weights and active
> (arbitrary fired and background) computation at nodes and links.  

Yeah, we all want this. I've been wanting this for years and been 
working on it, sort of, in ways that wouldn't actually be describable 
as work, but still. What I worry about sometimes is that the general 
idea of writing stuff out with weird dependencies and relationships 
between things in the system isn't necessarily going to end up being 
functional.

i.e. my stack of many hundreds of hand-written documents with something 
like 200~ lines per page or something, all of which I'll likely rarely 
ever remember to go back to look at.

[[ Most of the work that I mention is in the form of using hierarchical 
outliners and trying to figure out good ways of doing todo lists and so 
on. The problem of getting output from the brain on to the screen is 
why I explore brain implants in relation to text output and monitoring 
for assistive grammatical elucidation or something equally wordy but 
also awesome sounding. ]]

>  Some AI infrastructure might come close.   But is there anything
> more accessible today?    This is a very richly capable dream
> "mapping" capability.   It will be a challenge to not only implement
> its internals but especially to produce great useable UI interfaces
> to such.

Seeing the challenges in making good web browsers, yeah, it's a problem. 

- Bryan
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