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Most of what people call technology is constructs. Artificial, imaginary constructs that people made up. "Directory," "desktop," "game," "spreadsheet" — all imagined constructs that people have dreamed up and implemented in the computer. Today I offer one more construct for your consideration. [...]
Movable type took a lot of technical decisions, like matching the right lead alloy to the right sticky ink mixture, towards the simple construct of the printed book. This project too [Xanadu] has taken a lot of work for a similarly simple literary construct. I've never thought of this as technology, but rather, as what electronic literature ought to be.