[ExI] commentary by one of ours

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 10:02:10AM +1030, Emlyn wrote:
> I do share a love of books with the rest of you, but only because I
> grew up in the knowledge dark ages like the rest of you. The format
> only makes sense in terms of wads of paper.
> 
> Certainly if it's non-fiction, in an abundant networked environment,
> you want something entirely different. Wikis seem like the best model
> to me, but anything hyperlinky, commentable, fixable by the readers,
> mutable, is good.
> 
> For narrative fiction, they make some more sense, but still I'd prefer
> my information searchable and indexed, containing links, commenting,
> etc. Forkable. Mutable.

Careful what you wish for, you might just get it. And a deluge
of incompatible formats from hell, all in flux and not versioned.
Beware of Babel.
 
> Books are knowledge prisons from out of the long ages of ignorance.

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Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org
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