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
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I want to create, however, a new breed, a new kind of computer system that is much simpler that allows kids to programme once again.
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I never saw a computer during that course, I merely looked at the catalogues and the magazines and here was a picture showing a map on a screen.
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But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.
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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
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You can and must understand computers NOW.
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Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
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Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.
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The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.
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The only ones those certifications are recognized by are the associations who give them.
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The point is that you could structure this arbitrary information in any way. Well, given that, now we can write text that can go in all directions.
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So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.