The Medium of Text
understanding text as a medium (vs video/image/audio), how it has evolved, and what its future is
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The Medium of Text
What if scholars & fans aided by computational algorithms, could knit together the books of the world into a single networked literature? If a reader could generate a social graph of an idea, or timeline of a concept, or a networked map of influence for anything in the library.
Serj Solarpunk 🔆twitter.com
an interview about instant messenger that takes place on instant messenger. the lesson is simple: writing is hard because it forces us to improve our thinking.
Books should be structured as expandable trees.
One paragraph summary of each chapter, expandable into summaries of component points/stories, expandable into the full text.
Can read the whole book in 5 minutes or 5 hours.
Fred Ehrsamtwitter.comWizard | Conversational SMS Commerce for Innovative Brands
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@softspaceninja Not a criticism of the demo! more a comment on the shortcomings of text as an interface. I want to be able to take some text and squish it to get a summary; smash two together to get some AI-inferred conclusions or list of disagreements. Text today is very opaque to most software
Linustwitter.comReadocracy
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Write with Open Access
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