From "Computer Lib / Dream Machines" by Ted Nelson
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It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness. When Wells used the word network—a word he liked very much—it retained its original, physical meaning for him, as it would for anyone in his time. He visualized threads or wires interlacing: “A network of marvellously gn
... See moreJames Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
The web is called the web because its vitality depends on just that—an interconnected web of individual nodes breathing life into a vast network.
Laurel Schwulst • My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
Writing, more visibly and unquestionably today than ever, is inherently networked. It begins and remains connected to its subject, and to everything else, becoming part of it. It acts. It does work. It lives. When we write, we reconfigure the world.
James Bridle • Why I Write

It is my belief that this new ability to represent ideas in the fullness of their interconnections will lead to easier and better writing, easier and better learning, and a far greater ability to share and communicate the interconnections among tomorrows ideas and problems. Hypertext can represent all the interconnections an author can think of, an... See more