On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Nick Carbone wrote:
The reason I drew the line at electronic stuff was to draw a distinction between conceptual hypertext--which Bush argued, pretty much, that all thinking was--and hypertext made more literal, that is, a technology which lets readers and writers generate paths which mimic, but really in a pale way, the kinds of associative thinking people do all the time. For the sake of discussion, we can posit that everything's hypertextual. . . .
Yes, Nick, I like this: everything is hypertextual. In our own heads we are juggling 5-6 things at once give or take a few million other tasks like breathing, standing, blinking, smelling...) and those things have links to our previous knowledge and we are handling them simutaneously, multitasking. Web hypertext has now made visible what we have always done, it shows our thinking as we choose what to link to where as we do in the privacy of our heads. And it shows something about the reader too.
Not everyone reads from page one to the THE END. Now it doesn't matter.
Ted Nellen 8-)
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One must learn by doing the thing. For though you think you know
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