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Although Nelson was polite, charming, and smooth, I was too slow for his fast talk. But I got an aha! from his marvelous notion of hypertext. He was certain that every document in the world should be a footnote to some other document, and computers could make the links between them visible and permanent. This was a new idea at the time. But that wa
... See moreKevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
The Post-Individual
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"Authorship"-in the sense we know it today, individual intellectual effort related to the book as an economic commodity-was practically unknown before the advent of print technology. Medieval scholars were indifferent to the precise identity of the "books" they studied. In turn, they rarely signed even what was clearly their own. They were a humble
... See moreJohn Battelle • John Battelle's Search Blog Marketers Have Given Up on Context, And Our National Discourse Is Suffering
Rex Woodbury • Cultural Liquidity: The Rise of Cryptomedia
Curators are API’s that exist between people and all the knowledge of the world.
An API is an “application programming interface” that allows two apps to communicate, sending data between someone requesting something and a database full of data.
A curator exists in the space between people who want to know more about a topic and the massive amounts
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