Can technology progress independently of art and culture?
- what is meant by key words?
- culture vs. technology – use of everything = technology
- adrian: there is no culture without technology
- to make art you need technology – dependent – development based on the use
- Betty: yes?
What is the untapped potential of hypertext? Will we ever be satisfied with it?
- Ted Nelson – hypertext vs. hypermedia – problems with hypertext: links = one way
- YouTube videos – annotations – not as successful since you have to leave video/breaks up video
- hypertextual video
- transclusion – eg. embedding a photo from flickr on a post, can then click the photo and see where it come form
- should be able to see who’s writing about you or your work
- “Therefore” to start a para in a book relies on the last paragraph – result of linear form of the medium (book) – limits hypertext
- internet = equal distance between things
- can have different interpretations of traditional texts, but in terms of format they are the same (eg. can’t argue that something different happens at pg. 22, but can argue meaning) – hypertext changes this – can still tell stories, but don’t have to be premised on order
- Hypertext doesn’t work well with linear media? How you go about writing needs to change (but how does this work with all storytelling? All a mess…)
- No planning, just start writing and connecting bits
- Wikipedia – not a realised version of hypertext – realises it but in a closed way – two way links but only within site
- shouldn’t have comments – should link to own blog post where you explain opinion
