This image (sampled from the header of paragogy.net, riffing on the imagistic skills of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino) has always seemed to me to nicely capture the spirit of the times. Aristotle says "turn on, log in!", whereas Plato's eyes are blanked out (to provide a modicum of anonymity, since he is after all the "victim" of this surgical operation)... though perhaps we restore some of his essence by blanking his eyes with a Search bar rather than the traditional black line.
The crowd, mob, or hoi polloi looks on curiously, skeptically, observantly.
I'm reminded of this quote from a Roger Schank whitepaper,
This means that, in essence the stories from the corporate memory would find you because it knew what you were doing. This is the very opposite of search.I've also long been fascinated by "search and its opposites" (cf. Asger Jorn 1960, also Leigh Brasington, formerly discussed on Gathatoulie), though I don't know if I've always phrased it quite the same way as Schank. It's so hard to remember! How about this?
Other complications (and benefits) are created by the fact that some scholia may have "actionable" characteristics, which could even be set up to interface with librarian-style operations. E.g. a scholium might be able to tell a sufficiently sophisticated search processes: "Hey, search process, if you like me, you'll also like these children and cousins of mine, and here's how I think you should should display us all to the user."
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