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agreed, but i wonder about the possibilities of simultaneous presentation of information that netform might make possible---something that would shift the general relation people hold to the net as an information source, that would mark net-based information as something different from print, different from television. it would not involve a break with text, but more with the idea that existing forms of text presentation need to be mapped onto the net, a change (a series of changes) to the framing assumptions.
i think about this quite a bit, but suspect that there are limits to how far i or anyone could go with working out a solution (or the start/germinal form of one) without actually engaging practically. so this is a project that i keep floating about in my head, waiting for a chance to assemble a group that could work on it. thinking it might be a nice thing to divert academic resources into sometime.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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