https://youtu.be/72M5kcnAL-4&t=127s

this demo was uploaded Aug 29, 2016 - maybe a decade needn't pass before we can see this possibility realized* for the visual language in the digital display of text.^

*notably, now with a robust backend storage/distribution system (I really have no idea about how this browser based system was built out)

^our planet's timeline here shows a real asymmetry in design/engineering priorities… I think we're deep in on the 'user alienating' region of design spaces… a far cry from augmentation, humanism, anything conceived of in terms of literacy as it is practiced… or merely having the world's information 'organized' to be "accessible and useful" 🤮

generalization

Don't bother building the above ("the correct generalization of documents and media") - when it's not part of "the correct generalization of data structure"

https://youtu.be/WEj9vqVvHPc&t=342s "what does extra dimensionalism buy us?"

"we're talking here about construct logic - designing arbitrary structures that are going to be the most useful"

https://youtu.be/WEj9vqVvHPc&t=91s Ted's vid doesn't have a transcript? https://youtu.be/n22A-Say7do&t=91s

"here we're taking hyperthogonal structure and giving it views and operations"

https://youtu.be/WEj9vqVvHPc&t=312s

come on guys!

you've got to overcome this artificial divide present in, for example, the silos that exist between using my file system & my text editor - having two different apps for this means you've already lost the thread of literary machines…