Etymology

intertwingularity

Today it means: Deep and complex interconnection or interrelation. Full definition →

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Coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974) to express the complexity of interrelations in human knowledge.

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