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I’m a hyperlink maximalist: everything should be a hyperlink, including everything that is hyperlinked by the author, everything that isn’t hyperlinked by the author, and perhaps even the hyperlinks themselves. Words should be hyperlinked, but so should be every interesting phrase, quote, name, proper noun, paragraph, document, and collection of documents I read. There are two obvious problems with this idea: But we can solve both of these issues if we simply begin with today’s lightly hyperlinked documents, and let the reader’s computer generate links on-demand. When I’m reading something and don’t understand a particular word or want to know more about a quote, when I select it, my computer should search across everything I’ve read and some small high-quality subset of the Web to bring me 5-10 links about what I’ve highlighted that are the most relevant to what I’m reading now. Boom. Everything is a hyperlink, and each link reveals to me new and interesting connections between the fi

I'm a hyperlink maximalist: everything should be a hyperlink , including everything that is hyperlinked by the author, everything that isn't hyperlinked by the author, and perhaps even the hyperlinks themselves. Words should be hyperlinked, but so should be every interesting phrase, quote, name, proper noun, paragraph, document, and collection of documents I read. There are two obvious problems with this idea: No author has time to hyperlink infinite permutations of everything they write, and If everything is hyperlinked, nobody will know which links are useful. But we can solve both of these

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