Theodor Holm Nelson

Pioneer of Information Technology

 

Ted Nelson- founded Project Xanadu in 1960, his goal was providing the world with a simple user interface that would allow vast amounts of information to be stored, accessed, and cross-referenced at any time. He published books on his ideas and the background framework of Xanadu. The project has so far failed to come to completion, but Nelson has faith that someday (some decade) Xanadu will be realized.

Some parts of the original Xanadu vision are being fulfilled by the WWW, created by Tim Berners-Lee, and the web owes much to the vision of Nelson. Nelson doesn't approve of the web in its current form.

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