I thought I was going to be... by Ted Nelson, an American Author

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“I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.”

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Name: Ted Nelson

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: 1937

Profession: Author

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So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go.

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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

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So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

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