Hierarchies or Networks?

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 26, 2021 at 10:38 AM

We’ve had personal computers now for 40 years and the Internet for 25 years. There should be no reason to choose between hierarchies and networks. However, if I had to choose one over the other, I’d take hierarchies… just thinking back to the days of Grandview, still the best app ever produced in my opinion.

I agree that saying networks are the way our brains work is false. In fact, I might even venture that hierarchies more closely match what our brains are always trying to do, and that is to make sense of what we see. We want to take the input of our senses and put them into a logical “story.” An outline or hierarchy does that better than a network. Networks are very useful, but they are not how are brains work.

Steve