#xanadu

Where Concorde once flew: the story of President Mobutu’s ’African Versailles’
▻http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/feb/10/where-concorde-once-flew-the-story-of-president-mobutus-african-versail

For posturing dictators, only putting a new city on the map will do. Fifty years on from Mobutu Sese Soko’s ascent to the presidency of Congo, David Smith explores what’s left of his personal Xanadu, Gbadolite

▻http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2015/feb/10/inside-gbadolite-mobutu-ruined-jungle-city-in-pictures

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Ted Nelson’s #Xanadu finally gets released after 51 years (with Transclusion). | Hacker Trips
▻http://hackertrips.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/tednelson-xanadu-transclusion

Ted Nelson stated that he was “dealt one of the best hands in history, and misplayed it to the hilt. [He] could have accomplished so much more. [He] was here 1st, and it’s all gone wrong. [He] believes this would be a very different world and better world if [he] had gotten leverage. The world has gone the wrong way.”

Despite all that, Ted has continued on his visions, pursuing the ideas of transclusion in a visible way.

“Oh, I almost forgot…One more thing.”

The link for transclusion can be found here= ▻http://xanadu.com/xanademos/MoeJusteOrigins.html. The browser-based Xanadu is working. Nicolas Levin developed it.

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Ted Nelson - The Possiplex
►http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/03/the_possiplex.php

It’s hard to describe what reading Ted Nelson is like. His ideas explode, slip away, erupt into sudden brilliance, fade into nonsense, awaken insight, divert to irrelavant tangents again and again, get intensely geeky, and then soar into poetry. One has the impression of watching a thought richocet around a mind, looking for order. In his infamous article, The Curse of #Xanadu, so hated by Ted, Gary suggests that Nelson invented hyperlinking and the #web as an antidote to his own self-diagnosed attention deficit disorder, a way to keep track of things in his own mind.

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium//possiplex.jpg

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