"A well-constructed tree gives everything a place"
"Each thing gets only one place"
"No one category should be too big or too small"
"It should be obvious what the defining principle of each category is".
These quotes represent the requirements that Weinberger lists for a tree of information. However it also shows the limits of this medium, limits that are not found in the third order of order. In the digital order, there are no rules or restrictions. As Weinberger notes, trees require us to "make binary decisions about where things go. Ideas, information, and knowledge shouldn't have to suffer from that limitation". Luckily with the third order of order, they do not have to. A leaf can hang on multiple branches and can be different for every individual. We have already established in the previous chapter that technology has destroyed our sense of the geography of knowledge, but now it has also destroyed its shape, allowing each of us to create our own trees of knowledge.
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