As We May Think (1945)
I wonder if this should be aggressively ignored these days as a fruitless path. What if we were to do a clean room reimagining. It's hard to ignore the history here but sometimes sharp turns are needed to move forward.I've spent 20 odd years trying to piece all this history together as a side hobby and met everyone from Engelbert to Sutherland to Atkinson to Ted Nelson. I'm wondering what a radical departure could gain us.Base it on say, Karl Popper and Media Literacy theory instead along with webs of trust.The TBL system we currently use is too susceptible to information pollution with profiteers and propagandists as a perfect memex would also be as well as everything Nelson's ever cooked up.We've maybe let it run its course. Kill your darlings and smash your idols to build tomorrow