Chapter 21

1974
Computer Lib/ Dream Machines
Ted Nelson

• apparently the most important book in the history of new media
• Janus-life codex that joins two books
  
• Computer Lib predicted personal computers, and challenged what the fundamental use of computers would be from when he was writing
• meant to argue against Central Processing
• claimed that the importance of the computer would not be its computational skills, but its ability to generate new media
• wrote some of the founding documents in the field of human-computer interaction
• stressed the importance of design and having it be open and interchangeable
  
• predicted the explosion of knowledge that has occurred today with the Internet

Nelson was hugely influential and ahead of his time in this field. I would like to at some point actually read this dual-book and see how spot on he really was.