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
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.
computer wave display
If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.
computer
You can and must understand computers NOW.
numbers world corny
What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.
numbers information arbitrary
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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.
computer
Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
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.
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.