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Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 17:13:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  6 17:13:12 1987
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Well, rather than rumaging through a half dozen groups looking for
discussion of hypertext, it should be easier to find it in a group
called hypertext.

Recalling, Pamela McCorduck's The Universal Machine, on page 67 there
was a passing reference:
    Translations and hypertext are texts connected organically to
    other texts, but text can be transmuted into other things,
    pictures, for example.  In 1984, Brown and M.I.T. were awarded a 
    total of $3 million between them by the Annenberg/Corporation
    for Public Broadcasting Project for an electronic seminar to help
    scholars synthesize ideas, no longer hypertext, but hypermedia.
    (M.I.T. planned a novel interactive adventure game as a means of 
    teaching foreign languages.) ...

It would seem that philosophically, the key issue here is what does it
mean to be ``texts connected organically to other texts.''

Practically, I suppose there is the question of what ever happened to
the $3 million? [ :-) ]

---------- BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!webber)