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So, The Point Was To Be Able To Have A Medium That Would Record All The Connections And All The Structures And All The Thoughts That Paper Could Not. Since The Computer Could Hold Any Structure In Any Form, This Was The Way To Go.

-Ted Nelson

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So, The Point Was To Be Able

Ted Nelson

So, The Point Was To Be Able To Have A Medium That Would Record All The Connections And All The Structures And All The Thoughts That Paper Could Not. Since The Computer Could Hold Any Structure In Any Form, This Was The Way To Go.

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