A simple link, it turns out

>>From August 2005 wired (sometime in the near future) a callout in the
article "We are the Web" by Kevin Kelly reads,

"A simple link, it turns out, is the most powerful invention of the
decade."

The RM turned our former foreign key navigating links into set
processing joins so that instead of navigating from one "page" to
another, we join, restrict and project.

I, for one, am pleased that links have been "invented" and we are
permitted to drive around through data again. I don't need to do it
all the time, typically when I have a particular instance -- person,
place, thing or event -- and want to know more about it. Sure, if I
know where I'm headed I could do that with set processing, but I
appreciate the permission to wander too.

smiles. --dawn

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