1/ If Roam fails this is how it will happen No product I know of has a longer history of failure than hypertext, as recounted in this article, so it doesn't exactly take a lot of imagination https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ https://twitter.com/AdamNeumannsCoS/status/1249468647426281473 …
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I went looking in
@andy_matuschak's notes for a quote he had about Xanadu which summed up my thoughts there - but couldn't search the notes or backlinks easily Xanadu was more like Urbit than Roam - required whole system to work Couldn't use the system to improve the system1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
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Hm, perhaps https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z7Ldzn94FibghJBEG9hAebu8LMNV7NVBFvsfg … I've been hesitant to add search because I sort of like the sense of enigmatic inaccessibility—the sense when one sees a new link of "oh, what will this lead to?" This is fairly silly, though.
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