On Friday 19 September 2008, Mike Tintner wrote: > Your unconscious keeps talking to you. It is precisely paper that > mainly shapes your thinking about AI. Paper has been the defining > medium of literate civilisation. And what characterises all literate > forms is nice, discrete, static, fragmented, "crystallised" units on > the page. Whether linguistic, logical, or mathematical. Words, > letters and numbers. That was uni-media civilisation.
This is begging for a reference to Project Xanadu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu > Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project. Founded in 1960 by > Ted Nelson, the project contrasts its vision with that of paper: > "Today's popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web > (another imitation of paper) trivialises our original hypertext model > with one-way ever-breaking links and no management of version or > contents."[1] Wired magazine called it the "longest-running vaporware > story in the history of the computer industry". The first attempt at > implementation began in 1960, but it wasn't until 1998 that an > implementation (albeit incomplete) was released. - Bryan ________________________________________ http://heybryan.org/ Engineers: http://heybryan.org/exp.html irc.freenode.net #hplusroadmap ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
