"Thinking is FM - frequency modulation - for it results in tuning out of irrelevancies as a result of definitive resolution of the exclusivity turned-in or accepted feed-back messages' differentiatability." [sic]
From No More Secondhand God, Buckminster Fuller, 1963
Reviewed in Fall 1968 Whole Earth Catalog, p.4
"I find that the model of hypertext has become the metaphor via which my thoughts, my research, finds form. I can't read one book at a time. Instead I skip between many, following an annotation in one, buying a bibiliographed reference, dipping into books by the same or similar authors in the bookstore, scribbling notes in one book about another. I make the world my internet; the library my world wide web...
The forms metaphors take say a lot about the culture they emerged from. The model, in many aspects, is not important: The metaphor is the message.
From obvious' hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message" (my emphasis)
Interesting...
Reviewed in Fall 1968 Whole Earth Catalog, p.4