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Coined term by Ted Nelson in 1974
Intertwingularity is a portmanteau of the words intertwined and intermingled, coined by information-technology theorist Ted Nelson in 1974 to express the dense and interconnected relationships in human knowledge. The term is now commonly used to describe semantic systems of organization that are non-sequential, non-hierarchical, and which are antithetical to hierarchical systems. Nelson first introduced this term in Computer Lib/Dream Machines as part of his broader critique of existing hierarchical systems of organization in computers, and, historically, it is associated with his other work on hypertext and Project Xanadu in reimagining the linear organizational structures of computers with cross-connections. Wikipedia →
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Noun Deep and complex interconnection or interrelation.
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