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21  Computers should help us with **organizing our lives**, rather  Computers should help us with **organizing our lives**, rather
22  than making them more difficult. We need  than making them more difficult. We need
23  a system **structured** around **items** --  a system **structured** around **items** --
24  **things that we care about**, such as people, arguments and ideas  **things that we care about**, such as people, arguments and ideas --
25  (rather than  rather than directories and files.
 directories and files).  
26    
27  Based on Ted Nelson's ideas,  Based on Ted Nelson's ideas,
28  we describe the desgign of a computing environment based on a **hyperstructure**,  we describe the desgign of a computing environment based on a **hyperstructure**,
# Line 82  the people, appointments, plants, articl Line 81  the people, appointments, plants, articl
81  and so on.  and so on.
82  We need a system  We need a system
83  in which these **items** (`Nelson 2000`_) are visible things  in which these **items** (`Nelson 2000`_) are visible things
84  that can be connected to each other; we propose,  that can be connected to each other; a system,
85  in technical terms, a hypermedia system in which items  in technical terms, a hypermedia system in which items
86  are first-class objects [#can-use-structcomp]_.  are first-class objects [#can-use-structcomp]_.
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