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- Subject: (Fwd: *C&CD*) WetWare (Was: Slime Molds and Hypertext...) (10)
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- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 06:08:50 EDT
- From: IN%"RobertRoyar@Delphi.com" Robert Royar (C&CD Moderator)
- Message-Id: <1992Sep09.060850.1.Grendel.Lair@Cratylus>
- Subject: WetWare (Was: Slime Molds and Hypertext...) (10)
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- In message <AeeINKW00Uh7M3Vf1z@andrew.cmu.edu> Lili Velez
- <lv08+%ANDREW.CMU.EDU@CARNEGIE.BITNET> says
- >If left unattended, the average bathroom tile surface can provide
- >numerous slime molds. Unfortunately, _nothing_ "spontaneously" provides
- >hardware capable of running hypertext programs. I have to work with
- >materials that my students are able to get their hands on....
-
- If left unattended the human brain will spontaneously develop wetware capable
- of running hypertext programs. We do it all the time. Perhaps the real value
- to hypertext (should there be any) is not in the neat ways we can trick the
- user into thinking we've created a world in the machine but in the spillover
- of the concept of hyperware into the user's thinking strategies. But then that
- still leaves the question of how the user gets the initial training to learn
- the hypersystem of thinking.
-
- -- Robert Royar (RobertRoyar@Delphi.com) New York Institute of Technology
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