Perhaps someday the original vision of hypertext will become commonplace, rather than the watered-down version that we have.<p>> So, I still have a dream that the web could be less of a television channel, and more of a sea of interactive shared knowledge...<p><a href="http://worrydream.com/quotes/?author=Tim%20Berners-Lee" rel="nofollow">http://worrydream.com/quotes/?author=Tim%20Berners-Lee</a>
The article that influenced it all, reproduced on <i>The Atlantic</i>; <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma...</a>
What an interesting character. You can see his vision for the web at <a href="http://www.xanadu.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.xanadu.com/</a>, it is quite unique. Seems to focus almost entirely on concepts of ownership, attribution, quotation, and composition.<p>Given how much the modern web has developed, without significant infrastructure arising to support any of these, I wonder what that says about their utility in our current society, compared to those features which <i>have</i> arisen in the modern web (hyperlinking, anonymity, ephemerality, independence, content-addressability).
> Well enough to get three patents and independently invent ray tracing, if anyone is interested.<p>It seems that Mr. Nelson has an implicit respect for patents, but I don't know why. I guess he can't be right about everything, or can he?
Gigaom is back? I thought it abruptly ceased operations (other than leaving the static website up) back in March.<p>It doesn't look like there are many new articles being posting, but this is one.
Time for the image macro <a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7RQK6LC3gdg/VGFsmQBX0RI/AAAAAAAAAWU/H2xNrkuvCbw/w640-h960-no/tedmacro.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7RQK6LC3gdg/VGFsmQBX0RI/A...</a> again.