Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 17. Juni 1937 |
Geburtsort | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Theodor Holm Nelson (born June 17, 1937) is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. Nelson coined the terms transclusion, virtuality, and intertwingularity (in Literary Machines). According to a 1997 Forbes profile, Nelson "sees himself as a literary romantic, like a Cyrano de Bergerac, or 'the Orson Welles of software'." |
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
