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hypertext (hì´per-tèkst´)
noun
Computer Science.
A computer-based text retrieval
system that enables the user to provide access to or gain information related
to a particular text.
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Hypertext
Hypertext, in computer science,
a metaphor for presenting information
in which text, images, sounds, and actions become linked together in a
complex, nonsequential web of associations that permit the user to browse
through related topics, regardless of the presented order of the topics.
These links are often established both by the author of a hypertext document
and by the user, depending on the intent
of the hypertext document. For example, traveling among the links to the
word iron in an article might lead the user to the periodic table
of the elements or a map of the migration of metallurgy in Iron Age Europe.
The term hypertext was coined in 1965 by Ted Nelson to describe documents,
as presented by a Computer, that express the nonlinear structure of ideas,
as opposed to the linear format of books, film, and speech. The term hypermedia,
more recently introduced, is nearly synonymous but emphasizes the nontextual
components of hypertext, such as animation, recorded sound, and video.
hypermedia
hypermedia (hì'per-mê`dê-e)
noun
The integration of any combination of text, graphics,
sound, and video into a primarily associative system of information storage
and retrieval in which users jump from subject to related subject in searching
for information. Hypermedia attempts to offer a working and learning environment
that parallels human thinking- that is, one in which the user can make
associations between topics, rather than move sequentially from one to
the next, as in an alphabetic list. For example, a hypermedia presentation
on navigation might include links to astronomy, bird migration, geography,
satellites, and radar. If the information is primarily in text form, it
is regarded as hypertext; if video, music, animation, or other elements
are included, the information is regarded as hypermedia.
dance,
spiritual techniques, chaos
math, and pagan rituals. They move into a state of consciousness where,
as if logged onto a computer, the limitations of time,
distance, and the body are perceived
as meaningless. People believe that they move through these regions as
they might move through computer programs or video games--unlimited by
the rules of a linear, physical reality.
Moreover, they say that our reality itself, aided by technology, is about
to make a wholesale leap into this new, hypertextual dimension.
- Douglas
Rushkoff - _Cyberia:
Life In The Trenches Of Hyperspace_
(1994)
604
track
_The Link_ by Menis off of _Temporary Insanity_ CDb
on Koyote2001)_Bladerunner_
(1982)_UFO_
MP3 (160k)_Utopia_
MP3 (160k)dub
track _Everything Is Connected To Nothing But Itself_ MP3 (192k)
by ElectroslideDream
Machines_ by Ted Nelson (1974)Vannevar
Bush and the Mind's Machine_ edited by James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn |
Psychick
Warriors Ov Gaia off of _Ov Biospheres And Sacred Grooves
- A Document Of New
Edge Folk Classics_ CD
on KK/Restless (1992) |
Borges!
Most of their narrative structures are again hypertext--where the surface
narrative is a shimmering kind of mirage and you fall into it. Sound is
like that. I was trying to deal with that with my sound.
- Paul D. Miller aka DJ
Spooky
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