Hoerner relentlessly stress the importance of having an well-organised set of notes with no gaps.
One day I jokingly said: “In the future, we’ll have several cameras in the classroom; and simultaneous casting of the board, correlating with our tablet devices. And software that instantly transcript everything you said and intelligently re-organise the text and collapse it into a meaningful structure; and it’s all searchable, linked to the time-tracking marks embedded in the video recordings so we may go back anytime and re-learn on a specific item. And we’ll have multiple large screens on the walls showing relevant notes and references, based on automatically detecting the topic and keywords in our speech; tables and formulae, explanations and further expounding; brushing up in real time and side noting the lecture with a colourful syntax.”
Hoerner joked back: “In the future, you say to a computer: ‘Design a 15-storey office building for me, I’ll be back from lunch in 2 hours.’” (This can further go the image of rubbing coconut butter on your tummy on a beach somewhere)
So I said: “Why not?”
