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Dan Rosenberg: Historian University of Oregon

Within bodies of writing, everywhere, there are linkages we tend not to see.  The individual document, at hand, is what we deal with; we do not see the total linked collection of the all at once. But they are there, the documents not present as well as those that are, and the grand cat’s-cradle among them all.

-Ted Nelson, Literary Machines  (5 min)

The original French 18th century Encyclopedia was conceived of as hypertext (~10-11 min)

In real life, that is to say, on paper (laugh) (13 min)

Literature is debugged: ideas that “work”

The enlightenment thinkers were anti-Aristotelian (scholasticism)

Jaron: a gigantic fall from grace which is the opposite of moore’s law (32 min)

We have to gradually find our way back to Ted (33 min)

If you can remember the provenance for where bits come from, you can use that as the basis for a micropayment system.

Ted’s system of micropayments is the solution to the left-right (Marx – Ayn Rand) dilemma

Jaron to Xerox people: You should reference stuff, rather than copying it  (45 min)

“Don’t worry be crappy.” Silicon valley’s path to riches is spreading fast and getting users (48 min)

Fortunes have been made trying to construct backlinks: Google

• the effect on society is extreme privatization (incomplete designs lead to to income inequality) (49-51 min)
• mere openness is not enough, there has to be the ability to use the information
• successful open source software projects have a middle class (lots of small contributors)
• context-free openness has led to the decline of the middle class
• we are concentrating the wealth in the processors rather than the ones doing the work: google has to scrape the web for fresh translations to power there translation software.
• We have to disenfranchise the creators of content by forgetting provenance
• There were to kinds of young men (hippie, military redneck) (1 hr 01 min) that wanted to destroy provenance
  • Hippies: want to limit government power through anonymity
  • Redneck: CB radio with anonymous handles, used to avoid police (1 hr 03 min)
• The provenance has to be a kind that benefits the people who are not private.  Ted’s ideas are the solution to that.
• Its going to take a while to turn it around (1 hr 6 min)

Noah Wardip Fruin

All simulation is political, a primary form of representation, governed by rules

• Kodu: shooting is a top level.  Saying is a sub-menu.  Relationships are totally absent. (~1 hr 10 min – 1 hr 20 min)

We want to educate people who will disrupt the tech status quo, rather than fill a pipeline (1 hr 20 min)