I hope, that in our archives and historical filings of the future, we do not allow the techie traditions of hierarchy and false regularity to be superimposed to the teeming, fantastic disorderlyness of human life.
— Ted Nelson
Pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist
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Ted Nelson was a contemporary American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist. Theodor Holm Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher of computer science, and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. Read more on Wikipedia →

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