>In this vision, links are no longer lonesome strands precariously holding together a sparsely connected Web, but a booming choir of connections tightly binding

>In this vision, links are no longer lonesome strands precariously holding together a sparsely connected Web, but a booming choir of connections tightly binding together everything I have read and I will read That isn't a good idea. For links to be purposeful they need to be high in signal and low in noise. If machines auto-link the word 'vision' in the quoted text above, I'll probably get a long list of optometrists. There's a reason the text itself has maybe half a dozen links in it, like " Andy and Michael’s excellent essay[...]". That's a specific piece if information that's relevant to the context. Sparseness is a feature and not a bug when linking as you otherwise very quickly end up with a network where everything points to everything else, and that's meaningless. You don't want to 'tightly bind' everything together, because many of the things you read have nothing in common. In Schizophrenics, one important symptom is Apophenia, the tendency to see patterns in unrelated things. Hyperlink Maximalism is basically doing that to your text processing.