The Library Era
For more than 5,000 years, knowledge was centralized in physical libraries and books. Information was carefully cataloged, organized by subject matter, and accessed through systematic classification systems.
This structured, hierarchical approach to knowledge organization was later digitized into platforms like Yahoo and Wikipedia.
Search & Recommendation
In the 1990s, PCs and the internet connected us globally, bringing the first information revolution.
Information became digitized and instantly accessible, but the challenge shifted from accessibility to discovery and relevance.
We began relying on machine queries to fetch relevant information, giving us Google and Amazon.
Starting in the 2010s, user-generated content exploded with smartphone adoption.
Lightweight, recreational content dominated our daily lives. It became difficult to purposefully search for entertainment — we preferred to be fed content.
Recommendation systems emerged to predict what we might want to see next, bringing us TikTok, Instagram, and information bubbles.
The Curation Era
Large language models bring us a cognitive revolution. Very soon, the majority of content will be AI-generated,
and most interactions will be driven by agents.
Once again, information accessibility far exceeds human cognitive bandwidth.
However, this same technology enables a new paradigm of information interaction: intelligent curation.
Imagine a super-smart personal assistant with vast data access, perfect memory, who knows you intimately and has unlimited time to work for you.
She filters out all the noise and delivers just enough information to help you accomplish your goals or bring you joy.
This era is characterized by proactive, personalized, context-aware information experiences that adapt to individual needs and preferences.
At Causally.XYZ, we're building this new paradigm, enabling users to reclaim their information sovereignty and discover knowledge in
truly personal and meaningful ways.