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This guy is a great teacher (enjoyed his YouTube lecture), it seems to me that Hyperspace planted the Idea of HyperText which now has become the Internet, howev
by suyash 7y ago
This guy is a great teacher (enjoyed his YouTube lecture), it seems to me that Hyperspace planted the Idea of HyperText which now has become the Internet, however the core idea originated from neuroscience - how neurons are interconnected in the brain, therefore, the most appropriate name for internet should be "Neural Network" which co-incidentally is now used only in the field of ML.
- justanothersys 7y agoyeah he is so entertaining as a speaker, even in his older years - sometimes cheesy but I also have a soft spot for that
- lioeters 7y agoThe word "hyperspace" seems to appear only in the article's title, but your comment made me wonder.. It would make sense that "hypertext" arose from "hyperspace". I traced back the etymology and it looks like the 19th-century mathematician Bernhard Riemann was the first to coin the word, at least the concept of nth-dimensional geometry. The idea of higher dimensions was quite popular among artists in the early 20th century [0], and I theorize that somehow the stream reached Ted Nelson when he came up with "hypertext". From his "Brief Words on the Hypertext" (1967): "'Hyper-' is used in the mathematical sense of extension and generality (as in 'hyperspace,' 'hypercube')." He also mentions how "hypermedia" represents "complexes of branching and responding graphics, movies and sound – as well as text". The use of the word "branching" is reminiscent of neural networks, and it makes me wonder about the correspondences between the structure of the brain (or "mind") and space itself. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_dimension_in_art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_dimension_in_art
- suyash 7y agoNice find and thanks for sharing the sources.