A generation of pioneers (Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson, Alan Kay, and many more) saw the computer as tool to augment human problem-solving by giving people power over information. Today, that information mostly remains siloed across tools. Take cloud-based document editors, where pages are their smallest atomic unit. Information is locked inside of pages and files and folders — that’s reminiscent of
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