====Intertwingularity==== "Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged, people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply [[Intertwingled]]." -- [[Ted Nelson]] ===={ } twingled=== {{backlinks>intertwingled}} ==== surfaces beneath the deepness ==== > **Wired**: One of the details that leaped out at me was the Adidas GSG9, named for the German counterterrorism squad. I felt certain you'd invented the shoe, but then I Googled it. > **Gibson**: The Adidas GSG9s were the obvious choice for the thinking man's ninja. Nothing I could make up could resonate in the same way. There's code in name-checking the GSG9 history — esoteric meaning. Something that started with Pattern Recognition was that I discovered I could Google the world of the novel. I began to regard it as a sort of extended text — hypertext pages hovering just outside the printed page. There have been threads on my Web site — readers Googling and finding my footprints. I still get people asking me about "the possibilities of interactive fiction," and they seem to have no clue how we're already so there.... ---- > **ARG**: Suddenly, it is blind trust that shall ensure our mutual survival, not blind fear. The only way to grow this is to admit.