I beg to differ, the Wired article is great: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/xanadu.html http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/xanadu.html Ne

I beg to differ, the Wired article is great: http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/xanadu.html http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/xanadu.html Nelson did have some visionary ideas, but there is an important lesson to be learned here in how to bring visionary ideas into reality (and how not to). For a deep philosophical lesson, contrast the Xanadu story with Clay Shirky's article on the Web, “In Praise of Evolvable Systems”: http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/evolve.html http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/evolve.htm.... As Shirky says, "had the Web been a strong and well-designed entity from its inception, it would have gone nowhere”--as Xanadu was and did.