Ted Nelson - The Next Big Thing, Inc.

The HT'03 panel: The Next Big Thing, Inc.

This video contains Ted Nelson's presentation at a HT'03 conference panel (http://www.ht03.org/panels.html). Each of the panelist had to submit his views on Common-use hypertext for the next decade. As quoted on the panel website:

"The panel itself will be presented in an imaginary corporate setting. Panel members have been requested to submit a 5 minute proposal to a new multi-billion dollar international consortium, Next Big Thing Inc., that has decided to launch itself as the information nexus of the future. They want an infrastructure to enable them to do this. They are prepared to either use current technology as it is, augment it, or completely start from scratch, and have the resources to build whatever they accept. Each panelist will have 5 minutes to make their case, then will be examined by the shareholders (the audience) who will vote on the final technology to adopt at the end.

The proposal should include a background to the technology they propose, the steps needed to implement their vision, and the result in 10 years time of adopting their proposal.

Panelists are, of course, allowed (expected? :) to sabotage each other's bids, with commercial espionage, bribery, subterfuge, and of course, old-fashioned heckling all fair game - this is the funding oportunity of a lifetime!"

This video also serves as an example for the Advene application ( www.advene.org )

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Science & Technology

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• ted nelson
• ht03
• hypertext
• hypervideo
• advene
• anticipation
• future