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Uploaded by on Sep 6, 2008

Ted Nelson demonstrates his Xanadu Space software for representing hypertext as it should be, in three dimensional space. See http://xanarama.net/ for more details.

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  • Cool stuff. And with the touchpads/touchscreens/"wii-co­ntrollers" that we have nowadays, even navigating such complex structures should be quite easy.

  • the web was my child, it was born a retard

  • would it be historical to point this out as B*llsh*t?

  • swoop+morph = sworph

  • quote: "If you fight the existing paradigm, its tough."

  • Dude, he worked on this for 60 years! I've had the same ideas just by-the-way thinking about such stuff. I hope he has loads more, because if not, he wasted his life on an ego trip. God, don't let me do that.

  • I really hope that this guy goes down in history as a revolutionary...

    The only current application I see now that makes sense is the history lines, like he said.

    And possibly genealogy. Family trees don't always like 2D.

  • This has interesting "futential" (that's future plus potential), but development may be hampered by a collective mindset of Fear-Activated, Progression-ORiented WARinEss (we call this "faporware") and ultimately could find itself user-less (or, "useless"). :-O (that's :-( plus :-))

  • Seems perfectly logical, however the issue is going to still be the same as it always has been.

    Which is navigating a multi-dimentianal space in 2D.

    Once you start to follow the links beyond the first few tens of pages, you will be in a situation of information overload,

    Ultimately no matter what you do, such systems are doomed to failure, because currently they all rely on the paper paradigm (Video screen, hand eye co-ordination, overlaying etc)

  • @jdkforchrist revolutionary concepts are always hard to push through, its the very nature of humankind to fear the new ant cling to the already trusted and known. isn't that omnipresent? politics, religion, notion of nourishment... the majority likes to stick with their four wall prision it seems... i feel like he's trying to use pretty common language so it's understandable, he jost throws in some precise words. when developers talk to each other it's far worse :-)

    

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