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	I’m going to end this with several hanging questions, questions that start to work concretely, I think, down into the issues I have raised here. These are questions to get at the larger cultural frame for design I have just described, questions to help me consider how the larger frame of order for webpages is tied to a particular place and time: What if Web browsers had been designed in a culture whose central religious text, in the 12th century, could be presented like this (with right-to-left writing)? What if Web browsers had come out of a culture whose pages of poetry looked like this in the eighteenth century? What if Web browsers had been designed by people whose writing system required readers continually to rotate a page (or, in this case, a piece of wood) in order to read? [The above piece is from Easter Island, and was meant to be read in this order: ].
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