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Internet pioneer says the construction of the web is crippling our thinking
- theamk 8y agoThis article does not mention the name, but it looks it refers to Project Xanadu's "transclusions". Those "transclusions" are quotations with two-way links -- so if you copy a paragraph from one page to another, the text origin is preserved, and both "source" and "destination" pages would show the link. For example, if you are reading Shakespeare's play, then for each paragraph you will be able to see all studies which quote that paragraph; and if you are reading such a study and click on a quote, you will get to the full text of a play. There is more details in Project Xanadu documents, such as this one: http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/xuDation.html http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/xuDation.html The Project Xanadu design makes some interesting technical decisions to support this model -- basically, the whole world is one big centralized database; documents can be updated, but old versions are immutable (therefore links do not break); and all editing happens in Xanadu software which keeps track of copy/paste metadata.