webber@aramis.rutgers.edu.UUCP (11/07/87)
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)