Hypertext is the organizational language of computers. The desktop, windows and folders were meant to be a transitory steps towards a more fluid, digitally native structure that could take advantage of the infinite space provided by a computer monitor.

When Bill Atkinson started to work on HyperCard in 1985 he envisioned it as a full operating environment for a new kind of hardware. HyperCard was not only a program for the Macintosh but a whole new take on what it means to use a computer to create, organize and sort data.

Creative people, scientists, knowledge workers, artists, scholars, researchers, all of them have messy research process, filed with exploration, multiplate paths, dead ends and unexpected breakthrough.

Teams at universities, design agencies and more broadly "knowledge workers" are all feeling the pain of sorting through ever expanding bodies of information.

This problem was already a pressing issue in 1945 when Vanevar Bush described the Memex in his seminal article As We May Think. Bush imagined a machine that could store books, pictures, records or even films.

But more than storage, the most important idea carried by the Memex was to:

"affords an immediate step, however, to associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing."

Computers gave us the power to create, share and store but they still haven't delivered on associative thinking and serendipitous exploration.

That's why we're building Kosmik, to give you a place where you can think, explore ideas and create your best work.

We're standing on the shoulders of giants in this quest for better computers and better software. You can learn more about a few of them below. We intend to update this page as we build Kosmik, come back soon!