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.

Topic

Connections

Records

Paper

The Ideas Keep Going, You Have The Material, You Cut Because There's A Limit To The Space Allowed To You. And The Space Is Limited Because Of Some Other Constraints That Have To Do With Money Or Printing Or Whatever.

Cutting

Ideas

Space