this demo was uploaded Aug 29, 2016 - maybe a decade needn't pass before we can see this possibility realized* for the visual language in the digital display of text.^
*notably, now with a robust backend storage/distribution system (I really have no idea about how this browser based system was built out)
^our planet's timeline here shows a real asymmetry in design/engineering priorities… I think we're deep in on the 'user alienating' region of design spaces… a far cry from augmentation, humanism, anything conceived of in terms of literacy as it is practiced… or merely having the world's information 'organized' to be "accessible and useful" 🤮
generalization
Don't bother building the above ("the correct generalization of documents and media") - when it's not part of "the correct generalization of data structure"
"we're talking here about construct logic - designing arbitrary structures that are going to be the most useful"
https://youtu.be/WEj9vqVvHPc&t=91s Ted's vid doesn't have a transcript? https://youtu.be/n22A-Say7do&t=91s
"here we're taking hyperthogonal structure and giving it views and operations"
come on guys!
you've got to overcome this artificial divide present in, for example, the silos that exist between using my file system & my text editor - having two different apps for this means you've already lost the thread of literary machines…
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