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A presentation at CSS Day 2016 + HTML Special in in Amsterdam, Netherlands by Jeremy Keith
! e world exploded into a whirling network of kinships, where everything pointed to everything else, everything explained everything else. ” “ —Umberto Eco
Foucault’s Pendulum
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Linnaeus Messier Dewey Wilkins Otlet
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In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of matter and the abstract mental processes of the most abstract branch of mathematical science. ” “ — Ada Lovelace
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…an infinite tape marked out into squares, on each of which a symbol could be printed. ” “ — Alan Turing Intelligent Machinery
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Today’s one-way hypertext — the World Wide Web—is far too shallow. ! e Xanadu project foresaw world-wide hypertext decades ago, and endeavored to create a much deeper system. ! e Web, however, took over with a very shallow structure. ” “ — Ted Nelson ! e Xanadu Model
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! e world exploded into a whirling network of kinships, where everything pointed to everything else, everything explained everything else. ” “ —Umberto Eco
Foucault’s Pendulum
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