TT, For a long time I was very interested in Nelson's Project Xanadu but it didn't really fruit.
In danish we have a saying, "En fugl i hånden er bedre end ti på taget." I think you say: "a bird *in* the hand is worth two *in* the bush". ....But I find the danish better.....ti på taget= ten on the roof. Birthe On Saturday, June 12, 2021 at 12:33:16 PM UTC+2 TiddlyTweeter wrote: > 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/30c2b960-e6f1-45e1-bd0a-6df891fafa20n%40googlegroups.com.
