Hi,
Karen Telley wrote:
>>Tell us more about this Xanadu!
I know a bit about it but it's in the back of my head somewhere and I
just finished an important mesage on another list so my brain is fried.
It's also 3:30 am.
It was the forerunner to the World Wide Web. Forerunner is sort of
misleading, I'm not sure if it was ever implemented.
I'm sure there's some stuff on the Web on it if you search at
http://www.webcrawler.com
keyword: Xanadu
I think the Xanadu project is being maintained by a guy named
Andrew Pam at Principia Cybernetica? in Australia.
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Host's Note: Xanadu is the subject of a long article in the current Wired
magazine and is the dream of Ted Nelson. Information sharing. A "market"
for ideas and expression. An investment by AutoDesk. The gist of the
article is that nothing practical has come out of Xanadu, but as a vision
it has driven a lot of progress.
Years ago, probably in the 70s I read a remarkable article by Ted Nelson,
in a popular magazine, not a journal. It described a knowledge machine --
you controlled it with two levers. One determined how fast the stuff went
by on the screen. The other lever was a "drill down," each time you pulled
it, everything expands to more detail. A word expands to sentence, each
sentence expands to a paragraph, ...to a section to a treatise, etc. You
could go browse or read with a focus. That vision, pretty crazy, has
stayed with me for years.
-- Rick Karash, rkarash@world.std.com, host for learning-org
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-- Andrew amoreno@cyberspace.org