I Was Very Intensely Concerned With All

Computers Are Hierarchical. We Have A Desktop And Hierarchical Files Which Have To Mean Everything.

Right Now You Are A Prisoner Of Each Application You Use. You Have Only The Options That Were Given You By The Developer Of That Application.

I See Professionalism As A Spreading Disease Of The Present-day World, A Sort Of Poly-oligarchy By Which Various Groups (subway Conductors, Social Workers, Bricklayers) Can Bring Things To A Halt If Their Particular Demands Are Not Met. (meanwhile, The Irrelevance Of Each Profession Increases, In Proportion To Its Increasing Rigidity.) Such Lucky Groups Demand More In Each Go-round - But Meantime, The Number Who Are Permanently Unemployed Grows And Grows.

So, That Notion Of Hypertext Seemed To Me Immediately Obvious Because Footnotes Were Already The Ideas Wriggling, Struggling To Get Free, Like A Cat Trying To Get Out Of Your Arms.

Power Corrupts, And Obsolete Power Corrupts Obsoletely.