Google breaks down current information usage in the mobile, into three categories, namely, a) Urgent Now, b) Repetitive Now and c) Bored Now.
As we deeply integrate mobile phones into our lives, a new category would erupt, i.e., "understand now".
Understanding is more than merely throwing some wikipedia links.
Researchers found that 8-month old Infants are capable of segmenting fluent speech, by computing statistical relationships between neighboring segments, that too, listening for just 2 minutes.
Fortunately, it is pre-language phase, that a teacher does not "tell" the kid, how to segment speech, of the n methods, we humans have discovered to be working efficiently.
Though we are not a blank slate, our learning systems don't factor that.
Also, the hardest part in facilitating understanding, is to provide, information content, at the right level of abstraction, that adapts based on the user's current understanding and current reaction.
When we hear an assertion, we react to it, by accepting or rejecting it as coherent to our current understanding. We could be intimidated by the terms used in the content. Or we could be totally confused.
The understanding process could be made efficient, if the content adapts, according to assessment of understanding as well as user reaction to content.
Otherwise, we would continue to rely on string of words and have no way of knowing, how deeply we understood something.
Last and most important, we need to invent a natural interface for users to scribble their reactions. No ackward menus or typing from the keyboard.
... and scribblebee.com could be the answer to such understanding.
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