see.feel.touch.heal

"Movies and books, music and even architecture have for all of us
been part of important emotional moments. The same is going to
happen with the new media. To work at a highly responsive computer
display screen, for instance, can be deeply exciting, like flying an
airplane through a canyon, or talking to somebody brilliant. This is
as it should be. ('The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave
to the emotions.' - Bertrand Russel.)

In the design of our future media and systems, we should not shrink
from this emotional aspect as a legitimate part of our fantic design.
The substratum of technicalities and the midn-bending, gut-slamming
effects they produce, are two sides of the same coin; and to
understand the one is not necessarily to be alienated from the other.

Thus it is for the Wholiness of the human spirit, that we must design."

- Ted Nelson, 1974

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