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comment by alpha0
alpha0  ·  4316 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: David Gelernter: The End of the Web, Computers, and Search as We Know It

Time is spatial.

Perspective is implicit of a point of view. A point of view implicit of an observer. An observer is implicit of a field of vision. A field of vision is an affordance of visible objects. So a perspective view is an aggregation of objects near and far at a given point of time.

Actually WWW was predicted in the middle ages.





b_b  ·  4316 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Middle ages? Please elaborate.

alpha0  ·  4315 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Exaggerating to make a point.

("There will come a time when a person will speak and everyone in the world will hear his voice at the same time". Variations on that theme, from mid first millennium (CE).)