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Depending on who you're talking to, it is either a revolutionary idea misunderstood or a massive case of vaporware: https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ https

• SBG11 9y ago
  "Nelson invented a new way of crossing the street: when arriving at a busy thoroughfare, he would dramatically turn his back on traffic and step with theatrical nonchalance off the sidewalk. Drivers, frightened, would slam on their brakes." Well, there's that.
  • qubex 9y ago
    ”Eyes On The Road” might've been a reasonable assumption in the day before smartphones, but nowadays I'd advise against literally betting your life on it.
• leoc 9y ago
  I wouldn't take everything in the Wired piece as gospel. For example if you read point 3, "Transclusion Misstated" at http://web.archive.org/web/20001101230424/http://www2.educ.ksu.edu/Faculty/McGrathD/Fall99/NelsonLtr.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20001101230424/http://www2.educ.k... , it's clear that 1) Ted Nelson understood content-addressable networking long before eg. Bittorrent came about , while 2) Gary Wolf didn't get content-addressable networking even after researching Xanadu, meeting with Nelson himself, and writing a feature article about Xanadu for Wired. So, yes. See also http://web.archive.org/web/20001003011753/http://xanadu.com.au/ararat http://web.archive.org/web/20001003011753/http://xanadu.com.... .