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Thirty years after [Swanson] published his essay, we no longer have to rely on human contrivances alone. Now, with the ubiquity of the internet and the rise of machine learning, a new kind of solution is beginning to take shape. The infrastructure of the web, built to link one resource to the next, was the beginning. The next wave of information systems promises to more deeply establish links between people, ideas, and artifacts that have, so far, remained out of reach--by drawing connections between information and objects that have come unmoored from context and history.
-- Adrienne LaFrance. Searching for Lost Knowledge in the Age of Intelligent Machines, The Atlantic (Dec 1, 2016).
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