Replied to a tweet by Tudor Girba (Twitter)

The very fact that “tools for thought” is a recognizable concept these days only shows how badly current personal computing failed the original vision.
— Tudor Girba (@girba) Aug 3, 2021

Mostly for want of the mention of a single idea in Vannevar Bush’s As We May Think: commonplace books. He got so dewy-eyed about the technology that he forgot about the 2000+ years of prior tradition. Many are now re-discovering what we’ve lost.