So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
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Ted Nelson
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About Ted Nelson
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. According to his profile published in Forbes in 1997, Nelson "sees himself as a literary romantic, like a Cyrano de Bergerac, or 'the Orson Welles of software'."
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Ted NelsonIn my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.