The Best Place to Find a Needle
Not long ago the best place to find a needle was somewhere you knew you could find it, like a pin cushion, with the other needles. Consolidating all similar things in one place—whether it was needles, or architectural blueprints, or party clowns—was the safest and best strategy for everyone, because otherwise it was just too hard to find something when you needed it. Well, that was then. Today, in the Internet age, the best place to find the needle you're looking for is in a huge haystack.
Systematically cataloging the world around us is rarely any help in finding what we're looking for. There's simply too much out there, and it's changing too fast. It's only by maximizing our ability to connect to everything else ...
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