Effective system design requires insights drawn from serious contexts of use. Quantum Country dodges one common new media problem by being a serious text, meant to help readers really learn the core principles of quantum computing and quantum mechanics. But most of the readers aren’t in a situation where they really need to know those things—they’re just curious. That’s fine, of course: reading for curiosity is an important common use case which the Mnemonic medium should meaningfully augment.
But this does make it difficult to get clear signal on What’s the big-picture impact of the mnemonic medium on readers?. And it makes it difficult to evolve the medium: The mnemonic medium should be developed in a context where learning is in service of some meaningful use