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On a slightly different note, content-centric networking is one of those utopian dreams that never quite manages to arrive. Content is more Lindy than containers, but every time content moves to a new container, all the old synapses get nuked like it is getting drunk.
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Historically people have pursued two visions of backward compatibility for hyperlinked content: get to Xanadu (2-way awareness, transclusion etc) and content centric networking (construct discoverable address for container from hash of contents). Neither has arrived so far.
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Painful manual updates and 301 redirects approximate the former. Linking to a Google search (ideally the top ‘I’m feeling lucky’ result) approximates the latter. Neither is great. So as the web evolves, links break, entropy accumulates.