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Berners-Lee, T., & Fischetti, M. (1999). Chapter 14: Weaving the
Web. In _Weaving the Web: the original design and ultimate
destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor_. San Francisco:
HaperSanFrancisco.
Summation of BL's hope for the web as a way of improving community and
enhancing the beneficial aspects of the fractal nature of society by
allowing links alongside diversity.
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Tim needs to cite of his sources. And it really seems like he should
give a bit of a tip of the hat to Engelbart.
This is a compelling vision. BL speaks of the web as a giant knowledge
management system. Discovery of knowledge in multi-dimensional space:
seeing unexpected links.
I'm curious to see visualizations of various dimensions of the web and
discover the holes in the maps. What is there? What should be there?
But see also my chapter 13 comments.
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