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Tecnólogo de la información estadounidense, filósofo y sociólogo
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Join the roomTheodor Holm Nelson es un pionero estadounidense de la tecnología de la información, filósofo de la ciencia de la computación y sociólogo. Acuñó los términos hipertexto e hipermedia en 1963 y los publicó en 1965. Según su perfil publicado en Forbes en 1997, Nelson "se ve a sí mismo como un romántico literario, como un Cyrano de Bergerac, o 'el Orson Welles del software'."
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“[Of the web] It's massively successful. It is trivially simple. Massively successful like karaoke - anybody can do it.”
“After all, dumbing down Xanadu sure worked well for Tim Berners-Lee!”
“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.”
“You can and must understand computers now!”
“If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.”
“Everybody has only a 24-hour day. Most people, if they increase consumption of one medium (like magazines or books) will cut down on another (like TV). This drastically reduces the sort of growth some people have been expecting.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
