A link to the future
Even more than its content, the true identity of a web
page is the links it contains, one might call it its connections. "Tell
me who your links are and I'll tell you who you are." So we're well used
to finding all sorts of links on web pages - links that connect to a myriad
of seemingly unrelated topics, links that connect to all parts of the world,
links that make our insignificant spot in cyberspace somehow seem important.
But, though the proverbial "under construction" icon of web pages still
appears wherever we look, I have to admit that I can't think of many examples
of links to the future, essentially promises of pages to come.
That's essentially what this page is - a promise. These pages have seen
numerous links to previous columns that have dealt with topics touched
on in later columns, and I suppose that any reader (are there any readers
of these columns?) expects to find links of that sort. But a future column?
What do you link - a blank page?, a billboard page that annouces "coming
attractions"? And then, if and when the promise is kept, is it still a
future column? In cyberspace, as in the Talmud, there's no early or late,
and one day the link on this page will actually lead somewhere.
A Promise Kept ... or to (I can't bring
myself to give it up) ... a page maintained.
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