The birth of non-linear narratives
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Screen-based text with embedded links to other text has revolutionized how we find and retrieve information. Yet until the mid-twentieth century, conditioned by 500 years of print, non-linear narratives were unimaginable to most.
Vannevar Bush, author of ‘As We May Think’, which describes The Memex (Memory-Index), a proto-hypertext system.
The rapid advancements in knowledge brought about by World War II were disorientating. Organizing and acting on the deluge of opportunities that suddenly presented themselves was beyond linear narratives and taxonomies. A cognitive leap was required.
Vannevar ...
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