Ted Nelson: Computer

Ted Nelson is American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist; coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia". Explore interesting quotes on computer.
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“If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.”

Ted Nelson

Dream Machines, p 22.
Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974, rev. 1987)

Future

“You can and must understand computers now!”

Ted Nelson

Slogan. (The insistence that ordinary people need to understand computers is remarkable for its era: the first personal computers were not available until 1975.)
Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974, rev. 1987)

Understanding

“I have long been alarmed by people’s sheeplike acceptance of the term ‘computer technology’ — it sounds so objective and inexorable — when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.”

Ted Nelson

Quoted in In Venting, a Computer Visionary Educates http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11stream.html?_r=1 by John Markoff, published January 10, 2009 in the New York Times, page BU4 of the New York edition.

People , Idea

“It is imperative for many reasons that the appalling gap between public and computer insider be closed. As the saying goes, war is too important to be left to the generals. Guardianship of the computer can no longer be left to a priesthood. I see this as just one example of the creeping evil of Professionalism, the control of aspects of society by cliques of insiders. There may be some chance, though, that Professionalism can be turned around. Doctors, for example, are being told that they no longer own people’s bodies. And this book may suggest to some computer professionals that their position should not be as sacrosanct as they have thought, either.”

Ted Nelson

Computer Lib
Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974, rev. 1987)

War , People , Books , Evil