Today we talked about rationalization. A key innovation of the industrial world is information management and record keeping. When this occurred the world became rationalized and information was put together and written down in a way that it could be organized and understood better; therefore rationalized. I had never thought of information being like that before. It makes sense to have a certain way of keeping information together in order to save time and make it easier for others to know what they are reading. I think that it was a great step in the right direction to make the world an easier place to understand.

Then we moved onto hypertext which is when a link is clicked and the reader is taken to another page or wall of text/ information. It makes sense to to do this because with hypertext, people can connect two pieces of information. One seamlessly flows into the other and makes for a wonderful train of information. Hypertexts avoid the trap of specialization which is good because information is not confined to one webpage or small bit of text in the corner of a page. Hypertext and rationalized work together to make information easier to understand and well as being able to comprehend it. Without hypertext information would be less rationalized and the world may not have the internet as we know it today.