From "Computer Lib / Dream Machines" by Ted Nelson
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Because they were living in the future, they were interacting on a daily basis with the new, enabling technologies of the internet and cultivating new ways of thinking, feeling, and acting through those interactions. The team realized that the winning metaphor wasn’t a digital superhighway, with traffic speeding along a well-defined path, and fixed... See more
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