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- Jul 2023
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paper enforces single sequence and there's no room for digression it imposes a particular kind 00:01:03 of order in the very nature of the structure
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- "paper enforces single sequence and there's no room for digression"
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- Ted Nelson
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- Ted is alluding to the fact that our written text reflects SPOKEN text
- Since spoken text is phonetic and produced by our vocal cords, and our vocal cords inherently only produce one sound at a time,
- any written language that is built upon spoken language will reflect the same linear, sequential, temporal structure
- with the advent of computing, and especially HTML, this becomes an UNNECESSARY LIMITATION
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in my teen ISM it seemed to me that paper was a prison
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- "when I was a teen, it seemed to me that paper was a prison"
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- Ted Nelson
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