Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. — Anon.
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
Meta-filter on Ted Nelson
Dear old Ted. Rather like Richard Stallman, he is bitter that his ideas and work haven’t earned him the fame he feels is his due. In both cases I suspect lack of people skills have a lot to do with it.
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