values, priorities and logic
We have lifetime to consider. We can choose, and serve, and bear solicitude - in our learning - but the time in which we make choice is bounded by total service, alpha and omega. Initiating priority in our work of establishing order in the architecture of hypertext is in our own interest as we learn and approach problem solving. As early as 1945, Vannevar Bush noted in his essay, "As We May Think," that the amount of information already accumulated is of such a vast quantity that making intelligent use of this existing record is very difficult. Personal computers and the beginning of hypertext have given people a necessary potential access to making use of our written heritage. Much work has already been done. Much learning and genius have already been established. Let us now begin to organize and correlate this information for access and study. Let us establish hypertext pathfinders through our wealth of information and consider the work of those who have themselves found pieces of various puzzles. Let us relate these pieces to each other for the benefit of civilization. Logic itself is, perhaps, value neutral. The application of value, priority, and purpose guide our analysis and choice of hyperlink targets. The matrices we define will inevitably purvey our purposes. It is the purpose of this essay to further the application of logic and the historical development of logical analysis to the hyperlinking process, in creativity and in such a way that we are building a delightful, useful - and logical - edifice.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Richard L. Mariconda, M.L.S.
rlm@processtruing.org
September 19, 2008
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