Ted Nelson’s 70th Birthday Lecture – Part 5 of 15:
5:20
- one is to say what is the real problem .. and that way lies madness
- and the other is to say, lets just throw in some stuff we have lying around
The issue is that there is no determinate order in which to say things.
What I find most atrocious about Xerox Parc is what they did to cut and past.
The purpose of hypertext was to make visible really complicated documents
The Web That Wasn’t
Google Tech Talks : October, 23 2007
Alex Wright, New York Times Digital
Eugene Garfield:
- Founder of Science Citation Index
- Forefather of Pagerank
Body Rayward, “Visions of Xanadu”
Ted Nelson:
- he was about half-crazy, but he was also kind of a genius
- 37:00
Google Backrub did back links
Internet Pioneers: Ted Nelson
He was lonely as a child and had problems caused by his Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD).
Nelson attended Swarthmore college where he earned a BA in philosophy. In 1960, he enrolled in graduate school at Harvard. During his first year he attempted a term project creating a writing system
similar to a word processor, but that would allow different versions and documents to be linked together nonlinearly, by association. This was, in part, an attempt to keep track of his own sometimes frantic associations and daydreamings brought about by his ADD.