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@Article{Byte:1988:WHS,
  author =       "{Byte staff}",
  title =        "Will Hypertext Save Mankind?",
  journal =      j-BYTE,
  volume =       "13",
  number =       "2",
  pages =        "14",
  month =        feb,
  year =         "1988",
  CODEN =        "BYTEDJ",
  ISSN =         "0360-5280",
  bibsource =    "/usr/local/src/bib/bibliography/Ai/hypertext.bib",
  note =         "Microbytes department",
  abstract =     "``Calling hypertext `the next step in literature,' the
                 man considered the concept's creator urges software
                 developers to adopt his approach.'' At the Software
                 Entrepreneur's Forum in Palo Alto, Nelson urged
                 adoption of Xanadu as a back end for software
                 applications. ``Hypertext, said Nelson, `is a literary
                 concept and a cultural watershed. Hypertext is an
                 ongoing parade of documents, linked to previous
                 documents and pointing to future ones.' \ldots{}'' `The
                 present-day computer world stinks,' said Nelson, `What
                 we see out there is an unholy mess; \ldots{}.' In
                 Xanadu, there is no distinction between text,
                 databases, spreadsheets, or any other data structure.
                 [I *still* want to know who is going to manage the
                 issuance of type-and-representation codes for this
                 system -- dh.] Xanadu is a `write-once' system in which
                 every entered document is assigned an address in a
                 huge, virtually limitless address space. \ldots{} ``Not
                 only does Nelson propose to revolutionize the way
                 computers are used; he proposes to save the human race.
                 `The objective is to save humanity before we send it
                 into the garbage pail. We must remove the TV-induced
                 stupor that lies like a fog across the land.' Nelson
                 said he wants to `make the world safe for smart
                 children.' [Gee Ted, why not start in the third world
                 where corruption of the gifted by TV may not be so
                 advanced?]'' `Xanadu is not a conventional project,'
                 Nelson said. `This is a religion. The proper person is
                 one whose mind is free to roam.' [dh:88-02-02]",
  keywords =     "Ted Nelson Project Xanadu docuverse Hypertext Tumbler
                 Arithmetic",
}

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