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Hypertext for transferring craftsmanship <sum05 1 9>
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Knowledge or For every adult who wants more knowledge, there are perhaps
craftsmanship? 100 adults who want to acquire craftsmanship. For
============== example in:
┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ tying fishing flies │
│ slow-pitch baseball techniques │
│ wallpapering a bathroom │
│ redoing a kitchen │
│ designing a quilt │
│ landscaping a rose garden │
│ restoring a classic car │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Visual hypertext In the coming five years, I foresee incredible business
================ opportunities for creating video disks (laser/CDI-ROM) that
use hypertext to both provide desired knowledge and to
teach the associated manipulative skills. <link43>
Consider the TV spokesman for the spicy Cajon Potato
Chips. Five years from now, he'll have a monthly CDI-ROM
disk/newsletter on Cajon cooking. It will most likely
be sparked with Mark Twain humor and insider techniques
to demonstrate the secrets of making craw-dad pie or sell
you authentic bijou cooking tools and spices.
Electronic Don't laugh! Visual hypertext, coupled with a strong
mentors personality, can create electronic personal mentors that
======= invite viewers into their lives, stories, skills, and
merchandise (copying the Prairie Home Companion).
How to produce Here's what I'd do to become a producer of such "special-
video disks interest Michael Jackson hypertext video-CD disks":
============ ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Take a course in video production for recording the skill │
│ Build an image library (photos/diagrams) for close ups │
│ Find a personality for the subject area │
│ Create or collect the lingo, stories, and one-liners │
│ Story-board the various video-disks you'd like to produce │
│ Locate the associated books and merchandise to sell │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Far fetched? Heck no! The best mail-order businesses
sell paper and ink (or bytes of hypertext) knowledge.
Does all this depend on CDI-ROM disk players?
Free laser-disk Again, I'd say "no." All it takes is one large RCA-record-
hypertext player club-type organization offering under a membership plan a
================ free laser disk player and the four-button PC-Hypertext
kind of browsing capability.
Spending $300 is Most special-interest enthusiasts would automatically
nothing in your enroll for a 20-disk set of such visual hypertext (on
area of interest cooking, sewing, hunting, sports, history, etc) taught by
================ a recognized personality using a one-to-one do-it-with-me
and stories approach that is not possible on TV.
Summary The production costs of today's CD-ROMS average $2.00
======= per disk. Putting visual knowledge on such disks is the
business I want to be in. Such a business will be much
bigger that all of today's computing as people desiring
craftsmanship or easier access to knowledge is many times
larger than those who want to do ordinary tasks faster.
For that reason, I think the emerging mega-industries are
the structuring of knowledge (creating an almost infinite
demand for people with such conceptual talents <link60>).