The Future of Personal Information Management, Part 1. William Jones

      ²⁹Grudin, J. (1993).

      ³⁰See Bellotti et al., 2004; Bellotti et al. 2003; Czerwinski et al. 2004; Gwizdka, 2002 a, b; Kaptelinin, 2003; Kim and Allen, 2002; Mackay, 1988; Silverman, 1997; Whittaker and Sidner (1996); Williamson and Bronte-Stewart, 1996; Wolverton, 1999; Yiu, 1997.

      ³¹See Card et al. (1983).

      ³²See Bellotti et al., 2003, 2004; Czerwinski et al., 2004; Gwizdka, 2002 a, b; Kaptelinin, 2003; Kim and Allen, 2002; Mackay, 1988; Silverman, 1997; Whittaker and Sidner (1996); Williamson and Bronte-Stewart, 1996; Wolverton, 1999; Yiu, 1997.

      ³³See Jones, Bruce, & Foxley, 2006; Jones, Bruce, Foxley, & Munat, 2006; Jones, Munat, & Bruce, 2005; Jones et al. (2005).

      ³⁴http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_management; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management.

      ³⁵http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/create-tasks-and-to-do-items-HA001229302.aspx.

       ³⁶ http://www.rememberthemilk.com/

      ³⁷Jones et al. (2002).

      ³⁸See Bergman et al. (2010) and also Jones et al. (2005).

      ³⁹Bruce, H. (2005)

      ⁴⁰See Bergman et al. (2006). Boardman and Sasse (2004), Jones et al. (2005). The Planz prototype represents one approach that supports an informal project planning as an overlay to the file system (for free download, visit: http://kftf.ischool.washington.edu/planner_index.htm).

      ⁴¹For an excellent review of mnemonic techniques, see Yates, F. (1966).

      ⁴²Yates, J. (1989).

      ⁴³Shannon, C. (1948); Shannon and Weaver (1949).

      ⁴⁴For a description of these pioneering efforts to model human thought, see Newell and Simon (1972), Newell et al. (1958), Simon and Newell (1958).

      ⁴⁵For more on this early hypertext system and Nelson’s impassioned discussion concerning the potential of hypertext, see Carmody et al. (1969) and Nelson, T. (1965, 1982).

      ⁴⁶For more on NLS and a discussion on the potential of computers to extend the human capacity for thought, see Engelbart, D. (1962, 1963).

      ⁴⁷http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer.

      ⁴⁸See Lansdale, M. (1988).

      ⁴⁹See Card et al. (1983), Norman, D. (1988).

      ⁵⁰http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web.

      ⁵¹http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant.

      ⁵²See Bergman et al. (2004).

      ⁵³National Science Foundation (NSF) grant #0435134: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0435134.

      ⁵⁴For more information on this PIM 2005 workshop and to access its final report, see: http://pim.ischool.washington.edu/pim05home.htm.

      ⁵⁵As of this book’s publication, the most recent of these PIM workshops was PIM 2012, held in association with CSCW 2012 back again in Seattle (http://pimworkshop.org/2012—see at the bottom of this site’s home page for a listing of links to the 4 preceding PIM Workshops.

      ⁵⁶The January 2006 issue of the Communications of the ACM included a special section on PIM (see Teevan, J., Jones, W., and Bederson, B. (eds.). Communications of the ACM: A Special Issue on Personal Information Management. New York: ACM Press, 2006). A special issue on PIM for ACM Transactions on Information Systems was released in 2008.

      ⁵⁷See Jones and Teevan (2007).

      ⁵⁸Pirolli and Card (1999)

      ⁵⁹http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution.

      ⁶⁰See: Bellwood, P. (2004). First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies. Blackwell Publishers. ISBN 0-631-20566-7. Cohen, M. N. (1977). The Food Crisis in Prehistory: Overpopulation and the Origins of Agriculture. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-02016-3. Harlan, J. R. (1992). Crops & Man: Views on Agricultural Origins ASA, CSA, Madison, WI. http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/history/lecture03/r_3-1.html. Gordon Childe (1936). Man Makes Himself. Oxford University Press. Wright, R. (2004). A Short History of Progress. Anansi. ISBN 0-88784-706-40. Barker, G. The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers? OUP Oxford (Jan. 22, 2009) ISBN 978-0199559954 pp. 292–293.

      ⁶¹Bates, M. (2002) discusses an information farming model noting, for example, that people often assemble information into collections for later use (similar to our storage of food for later consumption).

      ⁶²Whittaker, S. (2011) challenges the foraging model of information behavior and, more generally, consumption models of PIM. He advances, instead, a model in which we curate our information (keeping, managing and sometimes exploiting the information we encounter).

      ⁶³See Wikipedia for an excellent article on the uses of prairie firing in North America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Native_American_use_of_fire).

      ⁶⁴Wikipedia provides an excellent starting point for learning more about the (often independent) development of pottery in different Neolithic cultures (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery).

      ⁶⁵See Naisbitt’s book (1984), “Megatrends: Ten new directions transforming our lives.” The reader is also invited to review for the accuracy (nearly 30 years ago) of this book’s attempts to predict the future.

      ⁶⁶www.facebook.com.

      ⁶⁷http://www.linkedin.com/.

      ⁶⁸http://www.wikipedia.org/.

      ⁶⁹http://secondlife.com/.

      ⁷⁰http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh.

      ⁷¹As I was during a trip made in the summer of 2003.

      ⁷²As an exercise, the reader might try a broader application of the “road” and “wall” metaphors. Roads stand for flow, exchange and movement. Walls for stasis and the restriction of movement. Roads are for projection and an optimistic anticipation of