If it wouldn’t, why would anyone ever use ZenWriter or airplane mode to write? Why would we use plain surface to write instead of already printed one, or seek (relative) silence to play our music? Why would any plant ever need less sun and shadow of old forest instead? Lack of feature is feature itself. We don’t need all features everywhere everytime, and it’s vital to know which feature we need not.
Research was painting a fuller, and very different, picture of the cognitive effects of hypertext. Evaluating links and navigating a path through them, it turned out, involves mentally demanding problem-solving tasks that are extraneous to the act of reading itself. Deciphering hypertext substantially increases readers’ cognitive load and hence weakens their ability to comprehend and retain what they’re reading.
Nicholas Carr, The Shallows : What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains [p. 126]
I loved Gemini from the first sight because of features it doesn't have and will never get. And reason is I have read this book. When my work is all about finding overload sources, exploring anti-overload designs and seeking anti-overload technologies, where else could I build my Archive if not Gemini? If it wasn't here already, I'd need to invent it myself.
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