ext_109086 ([identity profile] eldan.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] eirias 2005-02-20 02:57 pm (UTC)

This reminds me of how in my field a bunch of people suddenly rediscovered all this really cool cybernetics research from WWII. It was exactly the same problem - we read recent papers, assuming that they in turn were aware of what came before them, but it allows a whole body of research to be collectively forgotten.

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