I Was Very Intensely Concerned With All

I Am Looking At It From The Point Of View Of A Harried User, Which I Am, And I Believe That I Am Much More Like The Typical Non-technical Harried User Than I Am Like The People Who Smoothly Operate Everything.

Regularity Chauvinists Are People Who Insist That You Have Got To Do The Same Thing Every Time, Every Day, Which Drives Some Of Us Nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - We Need A More Positive Term For That. Hummingbird Mind, I Should Think.

So, The Point Was To Be Able To Have A Medium That Would Record All The Connections And All The Structures And All The Thoughts That Paper Could Not. Since The Computer Could Hold Any Structure In Any Form, This Was The Way To Go.

I Have Long Been Alarmed By People's Sheeplike Acceptance Of The Term 'computer Technology' - It Sounds So Objective And Inexorable - When Most Computer Technology Is Really A Bunch Of Ideas Turned Into Conventions And Packages.

The World Wide Web Is Precisely What We Were Trying To Prevent. We Long Ago Foresaw The Problems Of One-way Links, Links That Break (no Guaranteed Long-term Publishing), No Way To Publish Comments, No Version Management, No Rights Management.