Dr Ted Nelson: “Two Cheers for Now
Every programmer is a rouge magician
The original mac programmers hid a wire from Steve Jobs, which allowed it to expand. (16 min)
- not just the jump link, see the visibly connected pages with xanalinks
- writing no-sequential will allow us to express
- Had too many threads to pursue. Had no idea how big his projects were
- Most important was transpointing windows
Cambridge Commons: flash of insight: Ray Tracing
during the great fallow period
John the Baptist to Tim Berners-Lee
We hold these truths to be self-evident (originally: “sacred and undeniable” 27 min)
Jobs had Wozniak, Ted didn’t have a serious collaborator
I was designing for what I wanted. Doug Englebart was designing for himself. Others designing for others.
1) Burned up all my savings at Brown, compromised on jump links
Tried to get leverage by starting a computer store. Met Bill Gates in 1976.
Steve Jobs: Because he was a savage psychopath, he was able to get further than nice guys.
2) Mistake: Rewritting the code at autodesk
mistake: constant note-taking
So many documents require parallelism: talmud: stuff on the side