The Good News About Computers Is That

Making Things Easy Is Hard.

Intertwingularity Is Not Generally Acknowledged - People Keep Pretending They Can Make Things Deeply Hierarchical, Categorizable And Sequential When They Can't. Everything Is Deeply Intertwingled.

Let Me Introduce The Word 'hypertext' To Mean A Body Of Written Or Pictorial Material Interconnected In Such A Complex Way That It Could Not Conveniently Be Presented Or Represented On Paper.

The World Is Not Yet Finished, But Everyone Is Behaving As If Everything Was Known. This Is Not True. In Fact, The Computer World As We Know It Is Based Upon One Tradition That Has Been Waddling Along For The Last Fifty Years, Growing In Size And Ungainliness, And Is Essentially Defining The Way We Do Everything. My View Is That Today’s Computer World Is Based On Techie Misunderstandings Of Human Thought And Human Life. And The Imposition Of Inappropriate Structures Throughout The Computer Is The Imposition Of Inappropriate Structures On The Things We Want To Do In The Human World.

They Were Saying Computers Deal With Numbers. This Was Absolutely Nonsense. Computers Deal With Arbitrary Information Of Any Kind.