I never saw a computer during that course, I merely looked at the catalogues and the magazines and here was a picture showing a map on a screen.
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But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.Ted Nelson
So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
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The point is that you could structure this arbitrary information in any way. Well, given that, now we can write text that can go in all directions.
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I want to create, however, a new breed, a new kind of computer system that is much simpler that allows kids to programme once again.
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