We are used to thinking in narratives. We even dream in narratives-- sequential. There is always a begining, a middle, and an end. That was the traditional paradigm. With the advent of ICT in the 21st century and its resulting information overload, people, particularly those exposed to computers and Internet began to think in lists format. Life began to appear as a collection of people, object, events, things to do. Our feelings, thoughts, and plans are a collection of lists in our mind. Slowly we make a room for thinking in lists and not only in narrative where there is chronology. Now we think and even talk in hyperlinks. One key word or idea leads to another key concepts which in turn lead to another and more in endless labirynthian subsets.
I have fallen in love with the database. It's a whole new world. Maybe I do not have a choice. I have to love it to endure the task of providing the missing punctuations (at least temporarily, because soon all the required punctuations will be programmed to appear wherever these are required in the system) in the database-generated RTF manuscript which I converted into MS Word wherein I make the corrections. The target end product is a publication. From the Scientists Database, we publish the Philippine Men and Women of Science.
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