Ted Nelson continues.
We carry this paper metaphor - the tyranny of paper - onto the web.
The web browser looks at web pages. Documents with a single location that exist in a hierarchy - a path - and should never change.
He's right. All too often, we conceptualise the web as an infinite library. Roy Fielding's description of the architecture of the web - REST - REST which is dominant - and it's great, it's powerful, I fully get behind it and it makes the web as powerful and flexible and enduring as Unix itself - but REST perpetuates the tyranny of paper.
The paper model isn't appropriate to the virtual world, and it leads us to false conclusions. For example, copyright. In the real world, if I have a document, then you can't. That's not the case with computers, but our metaphors say otherwise and so it confuses us.
Matt Webb, Web Directions South 2014 (Sydney, Australia), October 2014