My own writing, I’m happy to admit, is not “classic”. Much of it should be something else, like games, web apps, datasets with exploration UIs, ‘pedia entries etc. Text was just the minimum viable form factor because words are the cheapest prototyping medium for any idea.
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In the first generation internet, we only shallow-digitized everything. Hypertext is an artifact of sentimental shallow digitization that mummifies the “document” behind an essentially sentimental UI. We think we’re “done” with internet of text and moving on to “things”. No.
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In the second generation, boundaries of printed matter disappear, and the Gutenberg legacy gets unbundled, and atomized. Every worthwhile line and image becomes an independent addressable, linkable meme. The rest sinks into obscurity. “2nd gen native” content is *born* atomized.
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These generation labels are for convenience btw, it’s all happening messily sort of parallel. Third generation. New rebundled forms emerge. Early chaotic mashup and collage pidgins give way to true deep-digital creoles. Threads on twitter are a good example. Instagram stories...
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Finally, the *meanings* of dead “content” start to come alive. This is deep digitization. The “semantic web” failed because we thought meaning was something dead and inherent, to be modeled. Now it seems it is a potentiality to be expressed and enacted contextually, like genes.
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Even our best visioning attempts, like the Diamond Age “primer” tech, seem impoverished and reactionary with respect to what is *already* happening. The idea of an advanced game world “book” for one little girl, with humans turking at the other end, seems dated.
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If this sounds all head-in-the-clouds visioning, you haven’t been keeping up with tech (including ironically cloud tech). Much of this has already happened in patchy ways. Every year blogging becomes a little less like writing, and a little more like “idea engineering”.
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All this frankly makes me ambivalent about writing in traditional forms like books or essays. It’s increasingly clear that these are a kind of Industrial Age larping. The thing that keeps me in traditional forms is mostly lack of skills/tools to go beyond, not sentiment
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Replying to @bierlingm @vgr and
We're trying to reinvent writing interface, take advantage of digital medium and provide such tool with https://brainec.com in order to make knowledge exchange much more efficient. Could it have a chance?
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I like the look of the product at a first glance
Once built a product like this myself which didn’t quite work so I’m always supportive of further attempts that might succeed where we failed. I think it’s a solvable problem.
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