# Information Architecture Information architecture is the deliberate organization, naming, hierarchy, navigation, and relationship design that makes information understandable and findable. It is a through-line across Bryant's BBS work, language indexes, AutoSites routes, anydata entities, PeopleLinking graphs, Obsidian vault, and XDO targets. The recurring question is not merely where data is stored, but what structure makes the next question cheap. Related: [[wiki/Knowledge Representation|Knowledge Representation]], [[wiki/Document Graph|Document Graph]], [[wiki/Structure|Structure]]. ## Relationships - **Edge source route:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] connects this topic to exact Annual Question passages promoted into the Simple Reminders archive. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "What's changing as computers become embedded invisibly everywhere is that we all now leave a digital trail that can be analysed by AI systems." > **— Ross Anderson**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Information/Embedded Computers Leave Trails for AI to Analyze by Ross Anderson|Embedded Computers Leave Trails for AI to Analyze by Ross Anderson]] > "Rather, the brain of all mammals incorporates a long-distance information sharing system that breaks the modularity of brain areas and allows them to broadcast information globally." > **— Stanislas Dehaene**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Information/Mammalian Brains Broadcast Information Globally by Stanislas Dehaene|Mammalian Brains Broadcast Information Globally by Stanislas Dehaene]] > "But the true role of data is to confirm which answers are the correct ones. If some physicist, or some machine, figures it out they have no way to convince anyone else they have the actual answer." > **— Gordon Kane**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Information/Thinking Cannot Replace Experimental Evidence by Gordon Kane|Thinking Cannot Replace Experimental Evidence by Gordon Kane]] > “If the sum of all significant knowledge is finite, what proportion of it can humans, aided by intelligent machines, eventually attain?” > **— Ian McEwan**, *2018, Edge Annual Question, “WHAT IS THE LAST QUESTION?”* [[reminders/Information/How Much Knowledge Can Humans and Intelligent Machines Ultimately Attain by Ian McEwan|How Much Knowledge Can Humans and Intelligent Machines Ultimately Attain by Ian McEwan]] > “In the city from where I now do most of my work, the Internet has become an extension of my memory — it combats the occasional "senior moment", helping me to find names, facts, and places instantly (or so it seems). It gives me a second, bigger brain. The Internet has allowed me to learn from people I have never met. It placed me in a university that profoundly affected my career, my research, and my worldview.” > **— Daniel L. Everett**, *2010, Edge Annual Question, “HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK?”* [[reminders/Memory/The Internet Has Become a Second Bigger Brain by Daniel L. Everett|The Internet Has Become a Second Bigger Brain by Daniel L. Everett]] > “Because people understand by finding in their memories the closest possible match to what they are hearing and use that match as the basis of comprehension, any new idea will be treated as a variant of something the listener has already thought of or heard. Agreement with a new idea means a listener has already had a similar thought and well appreciates that the speaker has recognized his idea. Disagreement means the opposite. Really new ideas are incomprehensible. The good news is that for some people, failure to comprehend is the beginning of understanding. For most, of course, it is the beginning of dismissal.” > **— Roger Schank**, *2004, Edge Annual Question, “WHAT'S YOUR LAW?”* [[reminders/Information/Truly New Ideas Begin as Incomprehensible by Roger Schank|Truly New Ideas Begin as Incomprehensible by Roger Schank]] > “If we look back over recent centuries we will see the brain described as a hydrodynamic machine, clockwork, and as a steam engine. When I was a child in the 1950's I read that the human brain was a telephone switching network. Later it became a digital computer, and then a massively parallel digital computer. A few years ago someone put up their hand after a talk I had given at the University of Utah and asked a question I had been waiting for for a couple of years: "Isn't the human brain just like the world wide web?". The brain always seems to be one of the most advanced technologies that we humans currently have.” > **— Rodney A. Brooks**, *2008, Edge Annual Question, “WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?”* [[reminders/Information/We Keep Explaining the Brain With Our Most Advanced Technology by Rodney A. Brooks|We Keep Explaining the Brain With Our Most Advanced Technology by Rodney A. Brooks]] > “The universe is a quantum computer: life, sex, the brain, and human society all arise out of the ability of the universe to process information at the level of atoms, photons and elementary particles.” > **— Seth Lloyd**, *2004, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT'S YOUR LAW?”* [[reminders/Information/The Universe Is a Quantum Computer by Seth Lloyd|The Universe Is a Quantum Computer by Seth Lloyd]]