If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the s… - Ted Nelson

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If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.

Ted Nelson

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Theodore H. Nelson (born June 17, 1937) coined the word "hypertext" in the sixties and envisioned a global network similar to (though arguably superior to) the Web in the seventies.

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Native Name: Theodor Holm Nelson

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[Of the web] It's massively successful. It is trivially simple. Massively successful like karaoke - anybody can do it.

Everything is deeply intertwingled.

I hope, that in our archives and historical filings of the future, we do not allow the techie traditions of hierarchy and false regularity to be superimposed to the teeming, fantastic disorderlyness of human life.

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards. - Ted Nelson

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