# Tools for thought

I remember this phrase from the book by [[Howard Rheingold]] that I read a long while ago. It's coming back in to fashion with PKM tools like [[Roam]] and [[org-roam]].

> It's easy to forget, but the web began as a tool for thought, and it had many of these same properties — personal, multiplayer, distributed, evolvable. It lost most of the personal and distributed aspects as it grew into an app platform. Perhaps we might carve out a bit of space for those again?   
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> – [[Building a Second Subconscious]]