{"id":587,"date":"2012-09-16T09:38:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T15:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eavgeek.wordpress.com\/?p=509"},"modified":"2012-09-16T09:38:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T15:38:02","slug":"transliterature-a-humanist-design-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/2012\/09\/16\/transliterature-a-humanist-design-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Transliterature, A Humanist Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This work derives from a simple question we asked long ago: &#8220;How can computer documents\u2013 shown interactively on screens, stored on disk, transmitted electronically\u2013 improve on paper?&#8221; Our answer was: &#8220;Keep every quotation connected to its original source.&#8221; We are still fighting for this idea, and the great powers it will give authors and readers. (Others would later ask a very different question: &#8220;How can computers SIMULATE paper?&#8221;\u2013 the wrong question, we believe, whose mistaken pursuit has brought us to the present grim document world.)<\/p>\n<p>One part of this project is available already: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanadu.com.au\/transquoter\/\">The Xanadu\u00ae Transquoter\u2122<\/a>, which does indeed keep quotes connected to their origins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/transliterature.org\/\">Transliterature, A Humanist Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This work derives from a simple question we asked long ago: &#8220;How can computer documents\u2013 shown interactively on screens, stored on disk, transmitted electronically\u2013 improve on paper?&#8221; Our answer was: &#8220;Keep every quotation connected to its original source.&#8221; We are still fighting for this idea, and the great powers it will give authors and readers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/protension.com\/heap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}