[extropy-chat] Information Wants to be Liquid

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Wired: Hegland's project, Liquid Information, is kinda like Wikipedia
meets hypertext. In Hegland's web, all documents are editable, and
every word is a potential hyperlink.
Hegland is based at University College London's Interaction Centre and
collaborates with Doug Engelbart, inventor of the mouse. Engelbart
refers to Hegland's project as "the next stage of the web."
"I love the web, but it's a shitty toy," declared Hegland. "(It's) a
first movie of a train coming into a station."
Hegland's idea is simple -- he plans to move beyond the basic
hypertext linking of the web, and change every word into a
"hyperword." Instead of one or two links in a document, every single
word becomes a link. Further, every link can point to more than one
place, pulling up all kinds of background context from the web as a
whole.
Click on a politician's name and find out who donated to his or her
campaign. Click on a town name in a news story and find out what else
has happened there.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66382,00.html