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What an interesting character. You can see his vision for the web at http://www.xanadu.com/ http://www.xanadu.com/, it is quite unique. Seems to focus almost
by colanderman 11y ago
What an interesting character. You can see his vision for the web at http://www.xanadu.com/ http://www.xanadu.com/, it is quite unique. Seems to focus almost entirely on concepts of ownership, attribution, quotation, and composition.
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 have arisen in the modern web (hyperlinking, anonymity, ephemerality, independence, content-addressability).
- scholia 11y agoWe didn't have personal computers back then. Try to imagine if you'd had to design the web based on mainframes, and you had to go to a sort of cybercafe to rent a dumb terminal.... Remember also that technology was very expensive so the "ownership, attribution, quotation" system was the basis for micropayments. By the way, it's a terrific interview, and I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it....
- colanderman 11y agoOh I totally get that! I'm commenting on where the web is now, in contrast to Mr. Nelson's view of what it "should" be.