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Ted Nelson

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

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Ted Nelson is pointing out that computers organize information in levels, like folders within folders on a desktop. He suggests that this layered way of storing files is considered fundamental to how computers work and how we understand them.

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