tools for thought as cultural practices, not computational objects
amazing article/presentation on the history of the term and field of "tools for thought", establishing a few important distinctions. essential to anyone thinking about anthropology, cognitive science, technology design and development.
i recommend the article version because it goes into more depth on a few of the references, including a part labeled as "draft", with more great loose thoughts and references.
article version: https://maggieappleton.com/tools-for-thought
video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKjxhoavCRM
my highlights from it:
the activities that are currently enabled by most tools for thought:
so a useful frame for the existing field of TfTs is this:
