From: Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.inka.de)
Date: Sat Mar 22 2003 - 18:30:23 MST
spike66 <spike66@attbi.com> wrote:
> Drexler's Engines of Creation treatment of hypertext
> seems a reasonably good description of the modern WWW.
> Altho that part seemed out of place in EoC, it might
> have been more visionary than the other material.
Funny. I consider Drexler's hypertext prediction an enormous failure
and a nice caution that the nano future will likely suffer similar
encumbrance.
Drexler's hypertext vision was of a free scientific library. By
comparison, the web mostly consists of drivel, low quality porn,
and interesting content is either not available at all or locked
up. Naive users are choked by advertising and malware.
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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