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Is hypertext a thing or a process?
Is the web a thing or a process?
Is information a thing or a process?
Knowledge is more process than thing. Information is processed data. So it is a process. But it also has a certain thingness to it.
What happens when we start to think of the web as a process rather than a thing? We talk about linking, and going, and finding. These are all processes. But is the web a thing that we do these processes to?
I just asked someone if hypertext was a thing or a process. They said it was a piece of code. That's so limiting because we don't look at a link as a piece of code. We look at it as a way of getting something, of getting from one place to another. It's a route on a map, ergo a process.
I really need to think these things through.
Is the web a thing or a process?
Is information a thing or a process?
Knowledge is more process than thing. Information is processed data. So it is a process. But it also has a certain thingness to it.
What happens when we start to think of the web as a process rather than a thing? We talk about linking, and going, and finding. These are all processes. But is the web a thing that we do these processes to?
I just asked someone if hypertext was a thing or a process. They said it was a piece of code. That's so limiting because we don't look at a link as a piece of code. We look at it as a way of getting something, of getting from one place to another. It's a route on a map, ergo a process.
I really need to think these things through.