@andy_matuschak with @eriktorenberg on tools for thinking, and especially the future of books!https://www.spreaker.com/user/10197011/designing-and-developing-new-tools-for-t …
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Ted Nelson published Computer Lib / Dream Machines in 1974. I read it that year. It’s the incredible vision that specifically inspired the web—and it was about *books*. Half a century later, Andy & I are approximately the only people in the world who write hypertext books.pic.twitter.com/oAgnEZvuRO
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Nobody even recognizes what a hypertext book is. http://Meaningness.com says “this is a book” on every page, yet nearly everyone refers to it as a blog. “Blog”—a collection of essays structured only by publication date—is the only recognized form of self-published web site.
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“You should publish this as an eBook". Duuude, what for? You're reading it on a screen now, and the experience is far richer than a bad electronic imitation of a dead tree. And still so much more is possible than the half-baked affordances I worked intohttp://meaningness.com
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I want to agree, don't you think we ought to to look at the repeated comments "you should make this an ebook" as a sign that people want something out of a reading experience that hypertext books still do not deliver?
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Yes; whenever I hear that I do ask why, and as an experiment I intend to deliver my next major chunk of work that way
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