Talk by Ted Nelson: Reaching out of the paperdigm (fwd)

[Thomas Gramstad]

In addition to the talk, also please come see the temporary
Ted Nelson mini exhibition in the Informatics library in Ole
Johan Dahl's house.

Thomas Gramstad


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:09:14 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gramstad <thomas at efn.no>
To: efn-listen at uib.no
Subject: Foredrag med Ted Nelson: Reaching out of the paperdigm

Norgesbesøk og foredrag i Simula-auditoriet med en av de virkelig
visjonære web-tenkerne, Ted Nelson. Se detaljer nedenfor.
Foredraget er del av et arrangement for folk på Ifi, men selve
foredraget er åpent.

Thomas



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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:29:43 +0200
From: Kristin Braa <kbraa at ifi.uio.no>
Subject: [ansatte] Guest speaker - Ted Nelson and opening of
    the Faculty Club, Tuesday 25th

Dear all
The Digital Signal Processing and Image Analysis (DSB) and the
Global Infrastructures (GI) groups would like to invite all IFI
employees to a very exciting lecture
[...]

The speaker presents himself in this way: "Ted Nelson is an
idealistic troublemaker who coined the word 'hypertext' in the
sixties, and continues to fight for a completely different
computer world."

The lecture will be from 17.15-18.00, Oct 25 in the Simula lecture
hall.

Topic: "Reaching out of the paperdigm"

"The computer world pretends to be finished, but never will be. In
fact it simulates the past: computers for secretaries, as designed
by Xerox in the 1970s, have become our working world. Today's
"computer documents" (.doc and .pdf) simulate paper and the fancy
printing of long ago. The Web added trivial one-way jumps,
allowing pogo-stick travel between pages. But what of deeper
connection?

We need deep, live documents of a very different kind for the
interactive screen, as foreseen by Bush and Engelbart and others--
for annotation and detailed discussion and scholarship, for
organizing and decision-making, for lawmaking and litigation, and
for entirely new forms of writing. Such profusely connected,
living documents are still possible, but require a wholly
different infrastructure. We will show some of these
alternatives."

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson [3]

We hope to see many of you at this event.

Kristin Braa (GI) and Sverre Holm (DSB)