Ted Nelson got the name Xanadu from a short story by Theodore Sturgeon from 1956 called "The Skills of Xanadu". (I asked Ted about it when he visited IBM Resear

Ted Nelson got the name Xanadu from a short story by Theodore Sturgeon from 1956 called "The Skills of Xanadu". (I asked Ted about it when he visited IBM Research around 2000...) Printed: https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1956-07/Galaxy_1956_07#page/n117/mode/2up https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1956-07/Galaxy_195... Audio: https://archive.org/details/pra-BB3830.08 https://archive.org/details/pra-BB3830.08 "The story tells of a representative of the expansionist, imperialistic culture of the planet Kit Carson, and his encounter with the deceptively pastoral culture of Xanadu." The story is about the social effect of wearable networked computers that can exchange knowledge -- very prescient for 1956!