Title: Re: FLUXLIST: coordination (beta version)
From Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee, 1999. p.21:
I was brash enough to look forward to having a web of data that could be processed by machine. I said:
"An intriguing possibility, given a large hypertext database with typed links, is that it allows some degree of automatic analysis [ . . . ] Imagine making a large three-dimensional model, with people represented by little spheres, and strings between people who have something in common at work.
Now imaging picking up the structure and shaking it, until you make some sense of the tangle: Perhaps you see tightly knit groups in some places, and in some places weak areas of communication spanned by only a few people. Perhaps a linked information system will allow us to see the real structure of the organization in which we work."
Little did I know that Ph.D. theses would later be done on such topics.
