The following list of links were gathered to contribute to a discussion about how wikis could be improved, by adapting insights from Xanadu and related work. I'll leave the author unattributed until checking with him.
A short, easy-to-read article about how information would flow in a collaborative Xanadu medium, published in Unix Review in 1990:
Hypertext Publishing
A paper on the societal implications of the Xanadu feature set:
The Open Society and its Media
Impact of the Xanadu approach on the evolution of knowledge, by K Eric Drexler, inventor of the concept of nanotechnology:
Hypertext Publishing and the Evolution of Knowledge
A technically successful attempt to bring the bidirectional, fine-grain, overlapping links of Xanadu to the open Web. Though it generated a lot of interest and a lot of people
experimented with it, it was ultimately socially unsuccessful (too few enduring users to bother to maintain it) for ease-of-use reasons that I think can be overcome in the more controlled context of a Wiki with modern AJAX techniques:
CritLink: Public Web Annotation
CritLink Mediator
Automated mapping:
CritSuite: Support for Mediated Content on the Web
A more recent description of why we need Xanadu, especially since the Web has taken off, by Ted Nelson, inventor of the term "hypertext":
Xanalogical structure, needed now more than ever: parallel documents, deep links to content, deep versioning, and deep re-use
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