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
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.
computer power-corrupts obsolete
Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.
easy hard
Making things easy is hard.
computer
Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
media water fishes
We live in media, as fish live in water.
numbers irrelevance groups
I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.
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.
media kind concerned
I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
arms projects trademarks
Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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.
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.
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.
recognized
The only ones those certifications are recognized by are the associations who give them.