Hyperthoughts

It seems that you can't open a mainstream newspaper or magazine these days without coming across an article about Frode and his hyperwords.

Sarah Boxer of the NY Times is the latest crash-test dummy, and she voices her concerns that unleashed text might be inclined to do a runner and not come back.

Yet not all lines necessarilly carry us onward to tangents of tangents; many lead to interesting intersections. Werner Heisenberg put it well: "It is probably quite generally true that in the history of human thinking, the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet."

So it's probably also quite generally true that more fertile linking strategies will be those that are associated with a good thinking strategy: a mode of conceptualising I will christen Hyperthoughts for now, and come back to in due course.