YIMBYism versus NIMBYism.........................

 .....................................interesting stuff.  Always good to remember to be careful around the "isms".

Reacquiring the privilege.......................

"Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems. He has built a civilization so complex that he needs to mechanize his records more fully if he is to push his experiment to its logical conclusion and not merely become bogged down part way there by overtaxing his limited memory. His excursions may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the manifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand, with some assurance that he can find them again if they prove important."
-Vannevar Bush, anticipating the Intertunnel, as excerpted from his 1945 essay As We May Think

A basic truth......................................

This I understand..............

     "I'm pretty sure of my facts here.  And if I could only put my hands on the book, I could be absolutely sure.  But is it shelved under U for Utz, or perhaps C for Chatwin?  Or is it in the unsorted pile on top of the radiator?  Or the heap of volumes that migrated from the living room to the dining room?  I am certain that I didn't lend it to anyone:  I am utterly miserly about letting any of my books out of my sight.  Yet my books don't seem to reciprocate by remaining within view, let alone within easy reach."
-Christopher Hitchens, as excerpted from his essay 
Prisoner of Shelves, which is part of his book, Arguably.