The True Structure of Information
Ted Nelson
Project Xanadu
Abstract
Information is not a commodity; it comes in brand-name
packages. The real problem is not the mere content,
but the cross-structuring among these packages.
Computerfolk are too concerned with the packaging
(fonts, layout, Web special effects), with the isolated
package contents (word processing, text retrieval),
and with flimsy and trivial connections among the packages
(today's ever-breaking one-way links). We must face
what I believe are the important issues-- those which will
define our media of tomorrow and how they are kept and
supplied ("libraries").
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