cj.v ... I often think: "I'm not sure what his problem is, but I'm sure it is hard to spell."
Yeah! Ted Nelson was/is very interesting. Why? Because he is passionate about the cognizance of how the human brain is not hard coded, it is organic flexibility. The human knows more than the computer and can immediately grasp and use newness. Computers are quite a blunt tool really. It is an on-going saga how the internet, especially HTML, is driving in a direction that is not the wet-ware we are. For a long time I was very interested in Nelson's Project Xanadu <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu>but it didn't really fruit. Nelson, I think, points towards the importance of information design. And that representation of information matters a lot. HTML has limits that are actually quite restrictive. For instance, the "list" construct is very crude. Descendant hierarchies are fine, but it is all so binary if you can't go "wet" when you need to. Rambling TT On Sunday, 6 June 2021 at 17:48:15 UTC+2 [email protected] wrote: > Just in case this is of any interest for a coffee break: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX0UN-gXBZE > > I do find Ted Nelson eccentric. > > I often think: "I'm not sure what his problem is, but I'm sure it is hard > to spell." > > I always enjoy listening to him. I always find what he has to say > fantastic. > > Whenever he says something, it gives me new insights into sometimes > unrelated things, but usually things that have me thinking about how I > organize stuff in TiddlyWiki, or how TiddlyWiki handles things so well > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7fdd5dc1-65be-4a5f-83ef-860d9d80c790n%40googlegroups.com.
