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RE: Two link questions

• To: "'Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)'" <clbullar@i...>
• Subject: RE: Two link questions
• From: "bryan" <bry@i...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:06:33 +0200
• Cc: "'DuCharme, Bob \(LNG-CHO\)'" <bob.ducharme@l...>,<xml-dev@l...>
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From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 5:16 PM
To: 'DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO)'; xml-dev@l...
Subject: RE:  Two link questions


>One has to understand that hypertext is a retrograde database 
>with navigation controls embedded in context.  

I always have problems when the dialogue gets too rarified, unless I'm
the one doing the rarifying of course. Can you add some support to the
term retrograde in that sentence?

>That doesn't 
>mean it isn't useful.  Carts in some cultures are a major 
>means of transportation and hauling.  In others, they are 
>children's wagons.

The metaphor seems strained; for technology I often think metaphors are
not the way to draw relations, as often a too vast a leap of cognition
(for me at any rate) is required. Perhaps allegory would be better here,
actually I'm getting confused, is it the hypertext that is a retrograde
database that is like a cart?

Your argument seems to be that hypertext is analogous to a cart in that
a cart is an outmoded form of transportation, I doubt that anyone has
ever existed that has called a form of transportation x outmoded without
a form of transportation y in mind for replacing it, what is the form of
transportation y in this case and what are its benefits? 

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