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TrackingWriters. Theodor Holm Nelson. Visionary, crackpot. Author of ''ComputerLibAndDreamMachines'', GeeksBearingGifts.
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* [http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ejw/csr/nelson_pg.html an interview] in response to the [http://www.hotwired.com/wired/3.06/features/xanadu.html Wired article]. Here his reaction to the web sounds more reasonable than other stuff I've read. He's less than happy about the Wired piece, which is not surprising. I'd be pissed too, even if it is fairly accurate.
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* [http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/History/Pioneers/Nelson,_Ted/ Google directory listing]
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See also: VannevarBush, hypertext, HyperCard, SourGrapes.
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[http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.09/rants.html Responses to that Wired thing.]
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:VintCerf: One profound insight can be extracted from the long and sometimes painful Xanadu story: the most powerful results often come from constraining ambition and designing only microstandards on top of which a rich exploration of applications and concepts can be supported. That's what has driven the Web and its underlying infrastructure, the Internet.
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