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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

The Internet That Never Was

Micropayments were a key element in Andreeson’s own original plans for the web, but partly because HTML links are one-way only, the only method available for incorporating this idea into the web’s design would have required active participation by the financial services industry, which turned out to be hopelessly difficult. According to Andreeson, “The credit card systems and banking system made it impossible. We tried hard, but it was so painful to deal with those guys. It was cosmically painful.”

.. In Isaacson’s view of the situation, had the Worldwide Web been based on two-way links instead of one-way links, then today it would be possible “to meter the use of links and allow small automatic payments to accrue to those who produced the content that was used. The entire business of publishing and journalism and blogging would have turned out differently. Producers of digital content could have been compensated in an easy, frictionless manner, permitting a variety of revenue models, including ones that did not depend on being beholden solely to advertisers. Instead the Web became a realm where aggregators could make more money than content producers.”