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.
