From "Computer Lib / Dream Machines" by Ted Nelson
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In order to be full and useful participants in the world, computers need to have relations with it. They need to touch and be in touch with the world.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
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
But now that our medium can handle far more ideas and information, and now that it is a connective medium (ideas to ideas, people to ideas, people to people), our strategy is changing. And that is changing the very shape of knowledge.
David Weinberger • Too Big to Know
This is what I want to talk about today, networked knowledge, like dot-connecting of the florilegium, and combinatorial creativity, which is the essence of what Picasso and Paula Scher describe. The idea that in order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a we... See more