Intertwingularity
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Template:Move to wiktionary Intertwingularity is a term coined by Ted Nelson to express the complexity of interrelations in human knowledge.
Nelson wrote in Computer Lib/Dream Machines (Nelson 1974, p. DM45):[1]
EVERYTHING IS DEEPLY INTERTWINGLED. In an important sense there are no "subjects" at all; there is only all knowledge, since the cross-connections among the myriad topics of this world simply cannot be divided up neatly.
and added the following comment in the revised edition (Nelson 1987, p. DM31):[2]
Hierarchical and sequential structures, especially popular since Gutenberg, are usually forced and artificial. Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged—people keep pretending they can make things hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't.
Influence
The concept of intertwingularity was celebrated at the "Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson" conference on April 14, 2014 at Chapman University.[3][4]
Peter Morville published a book in 2014 called Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything about the intertwingularity of the universe, crediting Nelson with the word.[5]
See also
- Connectedness
- Directed graph
- Interconnectedness
- Multicategory
- Multiclass classification, Multicriteria classification, Multi-label classification
- Multigraph
- Multiple inheritance
- Polysemy
References
- ^ Nelson, Theodor (1974), Computer Lib: You can and must understand computers now/Dream Machines: New freedoms through computer screens—a minority report (1st ed.), South Bend, IN: the distributors, ISBN 0-89347-002-3
- ^ Nelson, Theodor (1987), Computer Lib/Dream Machines (Rev. ed.), Redmond, WA: Tempus Books of Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-914845-49-7
- ^ Dechow, Douglas (2014-04-18). "Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
- ^ "Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson". Chapman University. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
- ^ Morville, Peter. "Intertwingled". Intertwingled. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
External links
- blue sky: miscellaneous by Jamie Zawinski
- Intertwingly - Sam Ruby's blog named for this concept
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