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I also have been reminiscing about Stewart Brand and Co. m'self past few days, Dr. Weinberger.

I'm guessing now that they were reading Ted Nelson or something, because I still recall the diagram (probably printed in WEC (Whole Earth Catalog) or, more likely, Co-Evolution Quarterly) in the '72 - '75 timeframe. It showed how scientific papers could be used to implement a kind-a meritocracy, via popularity and cross-references.. via links, of course.

Makes the '80-something supposed patent of the link (owned by BT) somewhat suspect, in my mind. But looked for this diagram on Net a year or year-and-a-half ago, so couldn't determine the date of this (apparently) prior art.

Was just thinking last night that you'd probably hafta multiple the $20K WEC was started with about ten-fold, these days... Dunno why I was wasting energy on the idea, but enjoy a dream as much as anybody.

Never intenionally stomp on another "man's" dream, btw. Prefer to focus on dreams that are actually do-able in some kind-a timeframe m'self and both of those, of course, are a matter of future probabilities.

I do not believe, however, the old saw that "my guess is as good as your's" or "it's anybody's guess"... Sure, anybody can Have an opinion, but the probability that all opinions are equally accurate seems highly questionable.

I s'pose I'll be able to figure out which of my own guesses are fairly accurate.. with sufficient hindsight... (big grin)

Until then... I tend to agree with the replies in these two (unrelated) posts (first humorous, second technical):

http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200311/msg00106.html

http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/xml-dev-Nov-1999/0266.html

We'll see what we see, which is normally what we wanna see.

(Enjoyed yesterday's post btw, no end, wrt that "moron who lived the dream"...!)

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