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March 17, 2003
Nelson on categorizations
Just a quickie lunch-time blog as I'm finishing up my reading for tonight's class. From Ted Nelson's 1982 Literary Machines: There is nothing wrong with categorization. It is, however, by its nature transient: category systems have a half-life, and categorizations beging to look fairly stupid after a few years. ... The army designation of "Pong Balls, Ping" has a certain universal character to it. Interesting to read this text (and not just the above snippet) 20 years later.
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I am reading a great book called sorting things out. It goes into the social and functional implications of classification. Very intense. -- Posted by keith knutsson on March 18, 2003 11:30 AM
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