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
acceptance technology ideas
I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.
cutting ideas space
The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
wall spring ideas
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
struggle cat ideas
So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.
american-author computer kids programme simpler system
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.
recognized
The only ones those certifications are recognized by are the associations who give them.
american-author arbitrary given information point structure text
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.
american-author computer looked magazines map merely picture saw showing
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.
microsoft-word bills databases
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.
arms projects trademarks
Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
media kind concerned
I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
intellectual fields filmmaker
I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
moving topics computer
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.
children guy littles
Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.