{"id":18340,"date":"2017-01-31T19:04:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T00:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18340"},"modified":"2017-01-31T19:04:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T00:04:06","slug":"description-experimentation-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18340","title":{"rendered":"Description \/ Experimentation \/ Navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After having implemented my &#8220;bubble breakdown&#8221;, I started studying its component parts.  And I discerned a structure that I hadn&#8217;t really thought about while I was making it.<\/p>\n<p>The web page has six parts.  Two of the parts are for description, two are for experimentation, and two are for navigation.<\/p>\n<p>I am thinking that this is a general blueprint for how to communicate knowledge:  You tell people something, you give them a chance to play with that knowledge, and you also give them a way to wander around within the connected space of learnable things.<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia does two of those three things, the first and the third:  It tells you stuff, and it provides ways for you to navigate around in the space of topics.  But it doesn&#8217;t give you any way to gain insight by actively playing around with a topic.<\/p>\n<p>As I think about what a future mixed reality version of Wikipedia might be like, I&#8217;m thinking that there is an opportunity to upgrade to a Description \/ Experimentation \/ Navigation paradigm.  Whatever you look at in the world around you can become an opportunity for learning and exploration.<\/p>\n<p>There are undoubtedly all sorts of tricky user interface problems to solve before that future version of Wikipedia becomes a practical reality.  But I suspect those are going to be really fun problems to work on. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having implemented my &#8220;bubble breakdown&#8221;, I started studying its component parts. And I discerned a structure that I hadn&#8217;t really thought about while I was making it. The web page has six parts. Two of the parts are for description, two are for experimentation, and two are for navigation. I am thinking that this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=18340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Description \/ Experimentation \/ Navigation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18341,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340\/revisions\/18341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}