我大略看了一下，应该是近期的文章而不是几年前的那本《未来之路》的节选，我是在搜索mind-mapping时在网上发现这篇文章的，一看还挺新，就想和大家共享一下。
注意这一句：OneNote and a new generation of "mind-mapping" software can also be used as a digital "blank slate" to help connect and synthesize ideas and data—and ultimately create new knowledge. OneNote和一代新的软件——思维导图软件也能用来作为数字“白板”，帮助人们把各种想法和数据联系或者综合起来，以最大限度地创新我们的知识。（可能译得不太好啊，其余的我看大致懂就行，这篇文章应该不难读。）下面是原文：
The Road Ahead
How 'intelligent agents' and mind-mappers are taking our information democracy to the next stage.
By Bill Gates
Newsweek
Updated: 10:59 a.m. ET Jan. 25, 2006
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It's hard to say exactly when it happened, but at some point in the last 20 years the word "knowledge" became an adjective. As intellectual property became increasingly important to businesses, and personal computers started appearing on every desktop, employees morphed into knowledge workers, companies began to focus on knowledge management and key information was stored in knowledge bases connected—in theory—via knowledge networks. The result was the knowledge economy, a phenomenon that has transformed the business of business and helped entire emerging economies to compete globally.
But this is only the beginning. Most of the "knowledge" on which the knowledge economy is built is actually just information—data, facts and basic business intelligence. Knowledge itself is more profound. As management guru Tom Davenport once put it, "Knowledge is information combined with experience, context, interpretation, and reflection." It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.
Most of us now live in an "information democracy"—if you have access to a PC and the Internet, you can tap into almost all the information that is publicly available worldwide. Advanced software and Web services can help trace, slice and dice the information in ways that were impossible only a decade ago. But while we've gone a long way toward optimizing how we use information, we haven't yet done the same for knowledge.
This is a vast growth opportunity, and a surprisingly tough challenge. While information wants to be free, knowledge is much "stickier"—harder to communicate, more subjective, less easy to define. For instance, the knowledge you accumulate throughout your career—the "tacit" knowledge, rather than the "explicit" knowledge found in, say, manuals or textbooks—defines your value to the organization you work for. Your ability to combine it with the knowledge of co-workers, partners and customers can make the difference between success and failure—for you and your employer. Yet today, even locating sources of knowledge within complex organizations can be daunting.
But as software gets smarter about how people think and work, it's starting to help them synthesize and manage knowledge, too. Some of this technology is deceptively simple. Software such as our own OneNote helps people take and organize their typed and sketched notes using a "pen and paper" approach that is more abstract than text-based word processors. On another level, OneNote and a new generation of "mind-mapping" software can also be used as a digital "blank slate" to help connect and synthesize ideas and data—and ultimately create new knowledge.
Researchers at Microsoft and elsewhere are developing technology that can unobtrusively "watch" you working, then make suggestions about related subjects or ideas. Interestingly, even if the software makes a bad guess, it can still be valuable in helping spark new ideas. Computer scientists are also making progress against a long-held dream of "intelligent agents" that anticipate your needs and provide just-in-time information that's relevant to the work you're doing. Experimental programs known as reasoning engines can test your ideas against common-sense logic, spotting flaws in hypotheses and acting as "virtual subject experts" to help guide your thinking.
These technologies promote consilience—literally, the "jumping together" of knowledge from different disciplines. They help people combine their own ideas with at least some existing knowledge far more efficiently than was previously possible. But they also leave a key problem unsolved: how to unearth all the new ideas that are being generated around the world.
Today's search engines are good at locating tidbits of information in an ocean of data, and even at finding answers to simple questions. The next step is pattern-recognition engines and mental models to help people mine and assess the value of all that information, and technologies that infuse online data with meaning and context. None of this is science fiction: the technologies that make it possible already exist.
The power they hold is hard to exaggerate. Inventor Robert Metcalfe theorized that the value of a network is roughly equal to the square of the number of people using it. "Metcalfe's Law" applies equally to knowledge: being able to tap into the world's finest thinkers as easily as we can now search the Web for information will revolutionize business, science and education. It will literally transform how we think—and help us finally realize the potential of a truly global knowledge economy.
OneNote是2003的一个组件，基本功能类似Mind manager. 但和思维导图似乎不太搭边。
我个人的理解是应用软件到目前为止并不能帮助人类更好的组织自己所了解的信息。老比觉得这是一个方向，应该放到Office里面。
另外，思维导图只是mind-mapping的一个具体应用。
不管如何，onenote不好用啊。
谢谢eyong的发贴，我在期待着eyong三招十八式最后的两招出来，支持你
[em17]挺好的消息 希望能让思维导图尽快通过这个大的平台进入人们的生活和工作中，知识只有被广泛的应用才能发挥它最大的效果，同时也能促使知识的进步和不断的更新升级，推广是最难的希望能有捷径可以走！谢谢老兄！
希望能真正的改变思维导图现在叫好但市场推广方面存在的问题，也想通过一些非常规的手段来给新的应用方程以新的思路可以让大家得到最新最快最好用的工具，
挺好的消息，希望思维导图能通过老比的平台尽快的走进人们的生活，这不论对我们还是对知识本身都是最好的结果，只有得到充分的应用才能体现它存在的价值，同时也会促使它自身的成长和更新！谢谢老兄 ！！
onenote我用过，不过用来写些日记，做点资料摘抄工作，感觉不好用，后来就废弃了。
思维导图 我现在也不太理解！我记的以前学看过《学习革命》好像里面提过，再后来就是来这里看到的。
看来我是学习一下了，都落伍啦
辅助工具都差不多，关键看人如何运用它们。
看来要好好学英文呀！！
不得不佩服这个猛人，思维都走在时代前端。。。。。ps, onenote非常好用
其实，MINDMAP在 OFFICE 组件 VISIO中 叫 灵感触发图。不过不如MINDMANAGER MINDMAP 好用。当然，与其他OFFICE 组件兼容性好。文件转换中不会丢失格式。 不知道，微软是否有进一步发展该软件的想法。
M$很有可能会通过收购一些开发导图软件的小公司来实现他的“野心”的。。。呵呵
这是老比的一贯作风啊。。。
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