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ZIGZAG
Ted Nelson is mad. Also, brilliant - even his tossed-off emails (1, 2) are a blast to read (it's rare to get the thoughts of a first-rate mind raw, before they've been massaged into untouchable perfection for publication). He invented the concept of hypertext, although he thinks we're doing it all wrong (see what I mean about being mad?)

Oh: ZigZag is a system he's trying to build to enable building, visualizing and navigating n-dimensional information spaces. I'm not entirely sure what advantage it holds over databases, but playing with it could be a nice headfuck.


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