Video: Ted Nelson Possiplex book launch (Oct 8, 2010)

  • Ted’s grandmother Jean’s life was saved by switching from the Lusitania. I’ll arrange everything.  Arnold Genthe meet my friend Ellen Therri  (110 min )
  • ADD is a cognitive style, sometimes it goes away you adapt. He’s had moments of remarkable concentration. You have to be able to concentrate.  (113 min)
  • The reason I find stuff other people don’t is that I don’t look under the street lights.
  • Possiplexia: freezing, too many possibilities (126 min)
  • It is probably hard to open a bad bakery in France because the customers are sophisticated. There are not similarly sophisticated computer customers (127 in)
  • Alamo and Chewing Gum connection pointed out in PhD thesis.
  • How would Xanadu change the way we write? I can’t talk about how other people would use it.
  • Tolstoy used true (paper) copy and paste: his daughters would make 2 copies
  • The examples are text based. How does that work for video: Edit Decision Lists can apply to video (It came from Hollywood).
  • Hypertext being a serialization of graph structures of our minds. Each assertion is addressable for AI. : Well you’re on a different planet. I’m not interested in AI. (151 min)
  • Knoweldge Representation is an Idiotic Term (Knowledge implies belief, not provable belief)
  • I have not created a table of statements. I have created a book of sentences.
  • DW Griffith