Ted Nelson
Ted Nelson
Theodor Holm "Ted" Nelsonis an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. Nelson coined the terms transclusion, virtuality, and intertwingularity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth17 June 1937
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
computer
You can and must understand computers NOW.
believe views people
I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.
Everything is deeply intertwingled.
graduation school graduates
So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
numbers information arbitrary
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
writing cutting frustrated
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
people emptiness pretending
Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged - people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled.
records paper able
So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.
research planets save-the-planet
The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.
easy hard
Making things easy is hard.
computer
Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
blood msg giving
How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.
media water fishes
We live in media, as fish live in water.
use given prisoner
Right now you are a prisoner of each application you use. You have only the options that were given you by the developer of that application.