Michael McMaster <Michael@kbddean.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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MM> I think that the problem is that it [a "report on events as they
occurred"] can't be captured in any linear manner. I have high hopes for
hypertext but don't know of its application yet. I expect to be able to
report on that in the next year or so.
MM> Anything that is a long linear record or that needs to be accessed in
a linear manner is not going to make it (I predict). What is needed is
something that is amenable to patterns and is accessible through templates
of interest rather than fact, time or even meaning.
How about a corporate novel as a metaphor? Not meaning fiction, but rather
a multi-tiered set of stories in chapters that all reflect a common theme?
Or don't they write novels like that, anymore?
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