Saturday, December 13, 2008

48. You Say You Want a Revolution: Hypertext and the Laws of Media, Moulthrop, 1991

  • Hypertext - "a technology for creating electronic documents in which the user's access to information is not constrained, as in books, by linear or hierarchical arrangements of discourse."
  • 1945 - Bush creates Hypertext to build the Memex machine in hopes to organize large amounts of knowledge
  • AI researches made the first hypertext narrative, a computer game called Adventure
  • Print favors site of auditory interaction.  Hypertext does not utilize one sense, rather, it is more cognitive.  It is all about "connection, linkage, and affiliation"

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