Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything
by Peter Morville · 14 May 2014 · 165pp · 50,798 words
Changes Everything by Peter Morville © 2014 Peter Morville All Rights Reserved Advance Praise for Intertwingled “Intertwingled is a meditation on the connectedness of everything. From language and ontology to culture and strategy, Peter takes us on a journey that reveals how
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130 131 132 133 134 135 Preface “People keep pretending they can make things hierarchical, categorizable, and sequential when they can’t. Everything is deeply intertwingled.” – Theodor Holm Nelson In 1974, Theodor H. Nelson wrote and self-published a book with two covers. The first, Computer Lib, is an introduction to
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understand computers, and many do.” The flip side, Dream Machines, is an invitation to the future of media and cognition that states “everything is deeply intertwingled.” This prescient codex served as a bible to many pioneers of the personal computer and the Internet. In 1994, I started my career as an
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this problem of reductionism is endemic to our culture. In 2014, I wrote this book to show Ted Nelson’s insight that everything is deeply intertwingled is more vital than ever, and to argue we can get better at getting better by changing how we organize information, not only on websites
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This Book This book should be read in linear style from start to end. It’s divided into chapters, but of course they are all intertwingled. Chapter 1, Nature Explores the nature of information in systems from the wolves of Isle Royale to Uber in Silicon Valley. Explains why systems thinking
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way. Last but not least, I’d like to thank Malcolm, Judith, Paul, and Ros for being in my circle; Susan, Claire, and Claudia for intertwingling my life with love; and Knowsy for our long evening walks. Chapter 1, Nature “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find
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when he said anything is hitched to everything, and it’s what Ted Nelson was getting at too when he wrote that everything is deeply intertwingled. The only constant isn’t change. There’s connectedness too. Weaving them together to mend culture is the work of our age. To succeed, we
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of control. But all maps are traps. This is too. So, what’s the opposite of pace layers? Is it everything’s intertwingled? Figure 2-27. Everything is deeply intertwingled. The layers exist. There are no layers. Both statements are true and useful. Everything depends on context. In the 1990s, the design
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overall strategy. And we can serve as sensors by providing feedback during rollout. We might also offer insight before implementation, because strategy and tactics are intertwingled. If a plan is invalidated by reality, it’s our responsibility to speak truth to power. At the same time, we must make plans to
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might understand and act together. We know what we think when we see what we say. Of course, our personal and professional lives are wholly intertwingled. Compartmentalism is a dangerous myth. We can’t be callous at work and loving at home. The centre cannot hold. The wall will not stand
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and externalities into our model of the system, because information changes everything. If we allow ourselves to be aware of connectedness, to see everything is intertwingled, and to act on the reality of interbeing, then we will hopefully change what we want, and that is the path we must travel. You
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, and a dog named Knowsy. When he’s not running, biking, swimming, or hiking, you can find him on the Internet at semanticstudios.com and intertwingled.org. Notes i The Wolves and Moose of Isle Royale by John Vucetich (2011). ii An ice bridge formed this past winter, the first since
Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson (History of Computing)
by Douglas R. Dechow · 2 Jul 2015 · 223pp · 52,808 words
professionals and practitioners of different backgrounds. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8442 EditorsDouglas R. Dechow and Daniele C. Struppa Intertwingled The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson Editors Douglas R. DechowChapman University, Orange, CA, USA Daniele C. StruppaChapman University, Orange, CA, USA ISSN 2190-6831e
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a front cover—was meant to confront the user’s notions of text and reading. In the Computer Lib portion, Ted wrote, “EVERYTHING IS DEEPLY INTERTWINGLED. In an important sense there are no ‘subjects’ at all; there is only all knowledge, since the cross-connections among the myriad topics of this
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taken down, the whole idea behind the worldwide web becomes simply the technological realization of an intellectual decision. On April 24, 2014, Chapman University hosted “Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson,” a conference to celebrate the anniversary of the publication of Computer Lib / Dream Machines and his many contributions
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in working for nearly fifty years on the Xanadu system, your vision of the docuverse. In this volume, which takes its name from the conference, Intertwingled : The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson , Nelson, his colleagues and contemporaries from the computing world and the scholars who continue to examine his work
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collaborate directly with Nelson. The penultimate section, Hypertext & Ted Nelson-influenced Research, wrestles with Nelson’s influence and legacy. The fourth and final section of Intertwingled, appropriately enough entitled The Last Word, is comprised of a single contribution from Ted Nelson himself. In it, he tells the reader—just as he
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did at the Intertwingled conference—that he’s spent the day listening to his obituaries. He says, “I feel very lucky to have eavesdropped on these thoughtful pre-mortems
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is as active as ever—he constantly emails us with his observations of the world—and that his body has barely slowed. Shortly after the Intertwingled conference, Open Xanadu had its first release, a moment 50 years in the making. Who can tell what will be next from Ted Nelson? We
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project to fruition and to Chapman University for sponsoring the conference and this Festschrift. We are deeply indebted to the Program Committee who organized the Intertwingled conference. In particular, we would like to thank Andy Anderson, Susanna Branch, Erika Curiel, Laurie Cussalli, Mando Diaz, Rebecca Green, Sheri Ledbetter, David Lowe, Carl
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Nelson’s Xanadu Ken Knowlton 5 Hanging Out with Ted Nelson Brewster Kahle 6 Riffing on Ted Nelson—Hypermind Peter Schmideg and Laurie Spiegel 7 Intertwingled Inspiration Andrew Pam 8 An Advanced Book for Beginners Dick Heiser Part III Hypertext and Ted Nelson-Influenced Research 9 The Importance of Ted’s
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Vision Belinda Barnet 10 Data, Metadata, and Ted Christine L. Borgman 11 Making Links: Everything Really Is Deeply Intertwingled Wendy Hall 12 Ted Nelson Frode Hegland 13 History Debugged Daniel Rosenberg 14 We Can and Must Understand Computers NOW Noah Wardrip-Fruin 15 The
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Computer Science, A. V. Williams Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA Ben Shneiderman Email: ben@cs.umd.edu 2.1 Intertwingling Ted Nelson’s intertwingled brains, Spawn repeating rhythmic trains Telling stories in poetic scenes From ComputerLib and Dream Machines. His restless mind reveals a lyric vision Shining brightly
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any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. Footnotes 1This chapter has been transcribed and edited from a video created for the Intertwingled conference (Alan Kay Talk at Ted Nelson Tribute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw). © The Author(s) 2015 Douglas R. Dechow and Daniele C
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are credited. © The Author(s) 2015 Douglas R. Dechow and Daniele C. Struppa (eds.)IntertwingledHistory of Computing10.1007/978-3-319-16925-5_7 7. Intertwingled Inspiration Andrew Pam1 (1)Project Xanadu, 138 Lincoln Rd., 3136 Croydon, VIC, Australia Andrew Pam Email: xanni@xanadu.net Intertwingularity is the idea that everything
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with other works is considered post-modern, but it’s also made very visible something that’s always existed: that culture is really one big intertwingled thing. Of course many other fandoms have become popular enough to support significant creative communities, for example Harry Potter fandom has spawned “Wizard Rock” as
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made it difficult to store text strings longer than 256 characters, but even with those limitations, the program worked well. 8.6 “Everything Is Deeply Intertwingled” The quotation that serves as the heading for this section appeared on page D2 in the Dream Machines half of Ted’s book, Computer Lib
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it to my last breath” [10, p. 339]. He has survived the journey so far, his ideals held high above the mud. But as the Intertwingled conference has demonstrated, as the people who have spoken here have demonstrated, the journey has also been necessary for the computing world. Nelson’s vision
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he has tried to do both. Ted has a large following in the library world because he dared to reimagine the library. Everything is indeed intertwingled, another provocative term of Ted’s invention. Xanadu, the hypertext system, is related to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1797 poem about the summer palace of
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18(9/10):1–6. doi:10.1045/september2012-vandesompel Footnotes 1See in this volume Wendy Hall, Chap. 11: Making Links: Everything Really is Deeply Intertwingled and Rob Akcsyn, Chap. 15: The Future of Transclusion. © The Author(s) 2015 Douglas R. Dechow and Daniele C. Struppa (eds.)IntertwingledHistory of Computing10.1007
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/978-3-319-16925-5_11 11. Making Links: Everything Really Is Deeply Intertwingled A Talk for Ted Wendy Hall1 (1)Web Science Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Wendy Hall Email: wh@ecs.soton.ac.uk Ted, this
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try to be a bit of glue in there that gets everybody talking together. Over my life I’ve found that everything really is deeply “intertwingled” and I’m very proud to say that this is my first Ted Talk. Well, it depends how you parse that. I first heard “TED
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how he has inspired my life but I’ll let him do that. This talk is based on a standard talk that I give, but intertwingled with how Ted has inspired my career and my work, and my life generally. We were both inspired by Vannevar Bush’s paper “As We
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‘new’ idea called hypertext. I began to hear about Ted and Doug Engelbart, both of whom equally inspired me: Ted talking about everything being deeply intertwingled, and Doug, talking about augmenting the human intellect. Again, I don’t need to tell this audience about these two men. When I give talks
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the information is interaction, and this is one of the prime insights I have gotten from Ted’s work. Ted is a man rich with intertwingled connections. Ted is very much about the rich tapestry of life. The etymology of tapestry is interesting. From the Proto-Indo-European “to stretch.” Poetic
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. That was then. We no longer have those constraints. It’s time to truly value connections. We have to accept our world as being deeply intertwingled. Oh, by the way, did you think I forgot about the Web? I didn’t. The web is not a web. The web is not
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, until I encountered Nelson’s books. An iconic image from Nelson’s earlier work is shown in Fig. 13.3. Its caption, “everything is deeply intertwingled,” is of course, the fulcrum of the current consideration of Nelson’s work. And here is something Nelson wrote about it:Within bodies of writing
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sciences, des arts et des métiers, ed. by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert) Among the eighteenth-century works to really engage the intertwingling problem, the best, most ambitious, and most thoroughly theorized was certainly the Encyclopédie: ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences des Arts et des Métiers of Denis
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(eds) (2003) The new media reader. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 17. Wing JM (2006) Computational thinking. Commun ACM 49(3) 18. Wozniak S (2014) In “Intertwingled: afternoon session #2.” Chapman University, Orange, California. Video timecode: 58:14. http://ibc.chapman.edu/Mediasite/Play/52694e57c4b546f0ba8814ec5d9223ae1d Footnotes 1For example, as Steve
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Wozniak said at Intertwingled, “At our computer club, the bible was Computer Lib” — referring to the Homebrew Computer Club, from which Apple Computer and other major elements of the
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video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMjPqr1s-cg. Given at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, on 9 December Nelson TH (2014) Intertwingled: Ted Nelson, ‘what box?.’ Streamed video. http://ibc.chapman.edu/Mediasite/Play/83d7b9016e3a42ecaf112cc4620e719f1d. Concluding talk of the conference
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, “Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson,“ Chapman College, Orange, 24 April Nelson TH (2014) Life, love, college, etc, 2nd edn. Mindful Press. http://www.
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computers. 17.3 Philosophy of Intertwingularity Let me begin at the philosophy end. Let’s talk about intertwingularity. This book, like the conference, is called Intertwingled. It’s a word that expresses a philosophical position about cross-connection. I said in Computer Lib [2, 6], “Everything is deeply
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intertwingled.” I meant that all subjects and issues are intertwined and intermingled. But intertwingled subjects are not what computers usually represent. From the beginning, people have set computers up to be hierarchical. Hierarchy
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are hierarchical.1 This is not just a philosophical position. It’s an IMposition. Now, it’s also a metaphysic to say, “everything is deeply intertwingled,” since the sentence cannot be proven true or false. But it is computer science to say that we need to represent cross-connection, and I
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interactive systems. These satisfy a lot of people’s wish lists, but with very simple and unifying structures. Each of these designs is nonhierarchical and intertwingled. I believe I have found a system of documents far deeper, and a system of data far richer, and a system of visualization far more
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Heath These different versions of transpointing windows show the implementability of the concept, though they are still regrettably far from product. 17.14 Our Other Intertwingled Software While xanalogical/transliterary documents have been the center of my concern, I have also worked on other forms of cross-connected software, two in
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particular. 17.14.1 Spreadsheet and Database Intertwingled in a Single Construct (Hyperthogonal Structure, Trademarked ZigZag) In 1982, I realized that spreadsheet cells and database fields could be reduced to a single, minimalist
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conventional. In decades of thinking and searching, I believe I have found the cleanest and most general designs for all interactive systems, each nonhierarchical and intertwingled—a system of documents far deeper, a system of data far richer, and a system of visualization far more sweeping, than proposed by those others
Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext
by Belinda Barnet · 14 Jul 2013 · 193pp · 19,478 words
also has a theory about the inheritance and transmission of human knowledge. The knowledge that we pass on to each other is itself a vast, intertwingled (a term Nelson coined) network, an accumulation of different disciplines and fields of knowledge, ‘a corpus of all fields’ (Nelson 1965, 145). This corpus is
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contribution to a dialogue, if not across the two cultures then at least across the engineering and literary communities’ (Joyce 2011a). CONCLUSION Everything is deeply intertwingled. I have always loved that particular Nelsonism (and there are many to choose from); it has stuck with me for twenty years. In this book
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readers and writers. Imagine if we could capture the deeply tangled structure of knowledge itself, but make it better, make it permanent. ‘EVERYTHING IS DEEPLY INTERTWINGLED. In an important sense there are no ‘subjects’ at all; there is only all knowledge, since the crossconnections among the myriad topics of this world
Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
by Scott Rosenberg · 2 Jan 2006 · 394pp · 118,929 words
that informational silos ignore: “People keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can’t,” he said. “Everything is deeply intertwingled.” For all the contempt heaped upon them, however, silos—discrete containers that hold a particular set of similar items in one and only one place
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/udell/2004/05/21.htm #a1006. “People keep pretending they can”: These lines by Ted Nelson are widely distributed on the Net, and the word intertwingle appears frequently in Nelson’s writing, but the original source of the full quotation is obscure. One source cited is p. 45 of the first
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
by Douglas Rushkoff · 21 Mar 2013 · 323pp · 95,939 words
his public reclusiveness to share what he learned with the rest of us. His chief insight, as he puts it, is that “everything is deeply intertwingled.” He no longer thinks of any thought or idea in isolation, but in context. Jerry describes himself as a pattern finder and lateral thinker. Everything
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limited to a single path, but instead suggests an infinity of possible pathways through data. The patterns are out there, constantly evolving and becoming increasingly “intertwingled.” It’s all potential energy. Maintaining this state—this readiness-is-all openness—isn’t easy, but it’s the only way to create context
Possiplex
by Ted Nelson · 2 Jan 2010
religion is human creativity and human freedom. Everything is possible, nothing is easy. I mistook a clear view for a short distance. Everything is deeply intertwingled. TN TN TN TN TN Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a Heaven for? Robert Browning AFORETHOUGHT I
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clawed and thought my way through the developing computer world of these last fifty years.* * Here’s how the book evolved: the languorous version, deeply intertwingled with thousands of interconnections of the world and my life, was going to be called World Enough (as in the poem by Andrew Marvell). But
Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
by David Weinberger · 14 Jul 2011 · 369pp · 80,355 words
is a long walk from A to Z, the networking of knowledge may be teaching us that the world itself is more like a shapeless, intertwingled, unmasterable web than like a well-reasoned argument. 7 Too Much Science IN JUNE 2010, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition ran a story typical
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). Frank Hecker read my use of the word in Everything Is Miscellaneous and tracked down the exact source of Nelson’s phrase “Everything is deeply intertwingled,” which is harder than it seems because of the nonstandard ways in which Nelson published his work. See details at http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/2007