> But surely it's the death-knell for those hypertext utopias of Bush and
Nelson? The
> ultimate interlinking of all human knowledge laid low before a
cost-benefit
> analysis of the LT website sitting on some bureaucrat's desk? The real
issue here
> is the usefulness of hypertextual information, which is being stymied by
issues of
> IPR.
>
> Or am I just being idealistic?
Ted Nelson was never part of the "information is free" community. Integral
to his vision was the notion of micropayments for transcluded documents. In
his model rather than banner-ads, the act of adding a link (or was it
following a link) would generate micropayments to the author of the linked
document.
Brian
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