MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
"As We May Think" --
A Celebration of Vannevar Bush's 1945 Vision,
An Examination of What Has Been Accomplished,
and What Remains to Be Done
Thursday, October 12 - Friday, October 13, 1995
Biography
Theodor Holm Nelson
Ted Nelson was always media-intensive. By the age of twenty-two, he had
appeared on the professional stage and television and worked at the New
York Times, had published (at college) his own newspaper, magazine, and
first book, and had produced (at college) a 30-minute film, a long-playing
record and the world's first rock musical.
But from the age of five he had also been intensely involved with the
philosophy of ideas. His college work at Swarthmore postulated a new
philosophy of arbitrary constructs, interconnection and correspondence.
These conflicting involvements of theater and theory made a career choice
difficult, until his own Digital Convergence at the age of twenty-three. In
1960 he took a computer course and saw a chance to create a new world of
interactive media -- a new fusion of literature and movies, based on arbitrary
constructs, interconnection and correspondence.
Since then he has worked on digital media designs outside the prevailing
paradigms.
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Rev. PP Oct 3, 1995.