All the repositories of content (Quora, Wikipedia, reddit, Facebook, Gmail) are imperfect and have glaring weaknesses. There could theoretically be a new UI design that makes sharing/remembering/locating/remixing/downloading information much easier.

There needs to be a system to maximize signal to noise ratio while ALSO not discouraging people to contribute if they have potentially interesting ideas. Wikipedia has a good S/N ratio, but is now overrun by deletionists. Quora re-surfaces good content people have posted years ago, which is good, but people seem not as free to contribute as they would on reddit (especially microcontributions like posting individual links as answers)

“information hygiene” is a good Brian Farley term

Could there also be an alternative to vertical scrolling? (especially with virtual reality?)

See also

• Better explanations

External links

• The Memo
• Autocomplete as an interface
• “Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface”, which also contains more resources on software design.