diff --git a/pages/concepts.hypertext.md b/pages/concepts.hypertext.md index 4eb6f53..99b90e9 100644 --- a/pages/concepts.hypertext.md +++ b/pages/concepts.hypertext.md @@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ - https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ ------------ + +> A core technical difference between a Nelsonian network and what we have become familiar with online is that \[Nelson's\] network links were two-way instead of one-way. In a network with two-way links, each node knows what other nodes are linked to it. ... Two-way linking would preserve context. It's a small simple change in how online information should be stored that couldn't have vaster implications for culture and the economy.[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson#cite_note-16) +> - [Jaron Lanier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier "Jaron Lanier") explains the difference between the World Wide Web and Nelson's vision, and the implications: + > A document is not necessarily a simulation of paper. **In the most general sense, a document is a package of ideas created by human minds and addressed to human minds, intended for the furtherance of those ideas and those minds.** Human ideas manifest as text, connections, diagrams and more: thus how to store them and present them is a crucial issue for civilization. > - Theodor H. Nelson in “[Transliterature: A Humanist Format for Re-Usable Documents and Media](http://transliterature.org)” \[site seems to be offline\]