The Future Of Information is a book
TedNelson wrote in 1997; it's written to/for the
WorldWideWebConsortium, especially
TimBernersLee;
NetScape, especially
MarcAndreessen, and
MicroSoft, especially
BillGates.
It's full of great zingers like 'Two cheers for the web'. But seriously, it is quite provocative on the subject of
WebArchitecture and
SoftwareArchitecture in general.
It's available as fax images.
http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~ted/INFUTscans/INFUTscans.html [
BrokenLink 2009-06-25]
At my request, he sent me the fulltext of the book, and I converted it to HTML with sections and links and such. I asked him if I could publish it via HTTP, and he said no, he's holding out for transcopyright for that. I even sent him a tarball of the whole thing so he
could publish it, but no. Sigh. --
DanConnolly
Much of the good stuff is in
Ted Nelson's Computer Paradigm, Expressed as One-Liners http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~ted/TN/WRITINGS/TCOMPARADIGM/tedCompOneLiners.html [
BrokenLink 2005-06-07]
Also a good article by
TimMcDonald on this:
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