From barbie@u.washington.edu Wed Oct 15 09:01:06 1997
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 22:35:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: "B. Hall" <barbie@u.washington.edu>
To: Economic Geography <econgeog@u.washington.edu>
Cc: billl@u.washington.edu, jbsimien@u.washington.edu,
    jennhill@u.washington.edu, kgrey@u.washington.edu,
    Bill Laine <bikeparts@halcyon.com>,
    Lory Watkins <lory@u.washington.edu>,
    Benjamin Sabiers <bsabiers@u.washington.edu>,
    David Shim <shimster@u.washington.edu>
Subject: This is my revised (only) introduction.


It's me again. Barbie. The one with the Cat on the Net (as opposed to the
Cat in the Hat). After some thought (though I have yet to determine just
how *deep*) I've added another dimension to my already-complex interest of
hypertext as the 3-dimensional model and how it pertains to 3-dimensional
solutions, etc. Hang on to your hats. Some questions that I've been
pondering:
1) how do women respond to hypertext in terms of faring their way around a
document well?
2) how do men do the same?
3) is 3-dimensional organization gendered? socially? naturally?
4) if #3 is true then is there a possibility that hypertext can
"influence" one gender to "think" and "organize" in a certain way? Put
another way, can hypertext, because of it's 3-dimensional structure and
its "layered" format "train" the brain to do other tasks in a
3-dimensional way? 

I think that I would actually have to do a survey as well as some
psychology reading to formalize my way-out-there thinking. 

At the moment, I'm reading Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" and *why* he
felt the need to creat this hypertext, etc.

I know this isn't the most substantial of introductions but it *is* just
that. An introduction. To be proceeded by mounds of afterthought.

The End. Sorta.