The landscape of the early 21st Century is extraordinarily complex. It is impossible to keep detailed and accurate maps of the intellectual terrain in our heads. DebateGraph enables us to build the maps we are trying to build in our heads on the computer screen. These maps give us pathways through landscapes of knowledge.

Chronological thinking forces us to build maps of the situation under consideration in our heads, limiting our engagement and muddying the action points.

In other words, for the complex, interconnected terrain we face today we need complex, interconnected maps. These are Knowledge, Action, Discussion maps -- maps of discussed knowledge, driving action.