~irst figure out what you really want to do and think about
An interesting was of making the reader be open minded. This feels like the original techno-optimism of how people believe that computers/technology will solve all problems. It feels like the intentionality behind the use of computers that is described here has faded as technology has advanced and become ubiquitous.
on any forms of data.
Surprised at how forward thinking this is by talking about multimedia links
Links are made by individuals as pathways for the reader's exploration
Pieces of information are associated with each other because of a human decision
evolutionary structure
time/version based storage (sounds like git)
a forking ar-rangement
This reminds me of github. Github was very unintuitive at first and didn't feel like a natural storage system to me when I started using it, but now is an extremely useful storage and collaboration tool
Protean structure
text is constantly warping, shifting
materializes
The idea of information being more quickly available to you than it is currently
If what you're doing is making repeat-ed small changes and additions, then you are repeatedly storing the same material, redundantly.
the editing problem is a storage problem
Within bodies of writing, everywhere, there are linkages \\18 tend not to see.
Everything is relative to everything else
never be a final and definitive
They are not creating the final form of their system
The past is con-tinually changing- -or
Links between information are also warped based off of how people view/use/interpret those links over time
2.2
Never thought of literature in this way before
literature
Virtuality is designed off the basis of literature
VIRTUALITY
Definition of virtuality: front end and backend systems working together to store information
fr~end'-
Definition of front-end and backend through the lens of storage management
Storage is fundamental.
Designer of the system prioritized storage as the main functionality
you design
The "correct" or "true" structure of information is determined by an individual designer of the system, not a general consensus
general representation and storage system that will permit auto-matic storage of all structures a user might want to work on, and the faithful acc
The purpose of this structure was to be a way to store and use information repeatedly.
And that a few years from now, small children will under-stand it immediately when they get a chance to play with it.
Such an accurate prediction
Believing that this is the right virtualit y ,
Describing this way as the "correct" way of computing is almost suggesting that their method is what they believe to be the only way of computing (?)
but if the scholar can get at only one a week by dili-gent search, his syntheses are not likely to keep up with thecurrent scene
it doesn't matter how much information is present if the user can't find what they are looking for
TheEncyclopaedia Britannica could be reduced to the volume ofa matchbox.
Repeated analogy of taking a large sum of knowledge/processes and shrinking down the space it takes -- to make room for more knowledge/the expanding sum of information that exists (?)
hought are notconfined, however, to mat-ters of arithmetic and sta-tistics.
the idea of creating paths between pieces of information that feel natural and less calculated
constitutes a camera,
A camera (or any large machine) is a sum of its processes and procedural hierarchies
down to any distance accommodated by theunaided eye
The idea of machines augmenting with humans allowing them to surpass their natural capabilities
The summation of human experience is beingexpanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use forthreading through the consequent maze to the momentar-ily important item
I like the way he's described the idea of navigating through information. This expands on the idea that everyone is trying to get from point A to B, but with human experience becoming more and more complicated and entangled with information, the steps between point A and B increase.
thinking man and the sum of our knowledge.
I haven't really thought of digital information as 'the sum of our knowledge'. This doesn't feel accurate, as there is knowledge that requires physical experience, but the web can and does encompass some of those experiences. The web seems much more vast by framing it in this way.