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Ted Nelson
American
1937
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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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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.
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But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.
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I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.
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