Travelling without moving

Reading David Weinberger’s book “Small pieces loosely joined {a unified theory of the web}” reminded me of the famous line from Frank Herbert’s “Dune” about travelling without moving. David Weinberger in one chapter describes our perception of space and how getting documents in the “real” world differs from going to documents on the Web. The Web folds space in a way that (most of) human knowledge is within our arm’s reach. Frank Herbert died before the Web came to pass. What would he think about his metaphor now?

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