Ted Holm Nelson offers an explanation about the identity of the originator of Bitcoin. How would Sherlock Holms have approached and solved the case?
Update: Obviously Satoshi Nakamoto is not a pseudonym at all. /via Dave Winer
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Ted Nelson: Computers for Cynics
Two Five Seven Eight new Ted Nelson videos are up: Computers for Cynics
#0 The Myth of Technology
#1 The Nightmare of Files and Directories
#2 It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC
#3 Database
#4 The Dance of Apple and Microsoft
#5 HyperHistory
#6 The Real Story of the World Wide Web
#N Closure: Pay Attentions to the Man Behind the Curtain
Ted Nelson at Hypertext 01
This is not my planet. And this is not my conference.
What an opening to a talk at ACM Hypertext 01 by Ted Nelson! Ted Nelson at ACM Hypertext 2001 from mprove on Vimeo.at University of Nottingham
Some quotes:
[2’10”] I think of the world wide web and XML and cascading style sheets is the ultimate triumph of the typewriter over the author. +++ three fundamental problems today: 1) hierarchical file structures 2) simulation of paper 3) the application prison +++ [12’40”] Software is a branch of movie making. +++ [17’50”] The question is about starting over. +++ ZigZag / Authoplectic structures where trees and tables are just edge cases. +++
More at Ted Nelson Bibliography