Me:: The link is everything :-) and AI summaries lose this everything-ness Dec 6, 2024 Collin Jennings:: When AI summaries replace hyperlinks, thought itself is flattened | Aeon Essays
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The web made the investigative process Bush described possible by preserving trails of association. When we navigate the web via links, we are in a sense travelling through the series of connections made by someone else, not unlike reading something they wrote. This is part of what Pope’s Dunciad reveals – the shape of a medium’s form communicates its content, and the interaction between form and content is how it produces meaning. This is of course what Page and Brin recognised in implementing the PageRank algorithm. The links matter as much as the text.