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
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.
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.
book cutting people
Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting.
people fool doe
Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.
thinking nuts people
Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think.
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.