If Computers Are The Wave Of The

We Live In Media, As Fish Live In Water.

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.

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, 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.

The Paperless Office Is Possible, But Not By Imitating Paper. Note That The Horseless Carriage Did Not Work By Imitating Horses.