Vision&Reality
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Correspondence with Ted Nelson

Ted Nelson

Xanadu

Oct 1999

One way to look at how to use the computer to help work with documents would be the possibility of a conventional word-processor approach. It’s a very straightforward way. The orientation is to simulate paper on a display, targetted solely to produce hard copy. An considerable advantage in many situations, but it is a very anemic example of what the [Augmenting Human Intellect] framework promises.

[Engelbart 88]

Apr 2000

“Virtuality design” is explained in [Nelson 90]