Internet Walden: Introduction—Why We Should Be Free Online
The Internet may be our finest tool for inculcating the highest values in ourselves—but before cultivation comes freedom.
"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist."
The Internet may be our finest tool for inculcating the highest values in ourselves—but before cultivation comes freedom.
The important thing about science is not that everything will be known, or that everything unanimously believed by scientists is necessarily true, but that science contains s system for seeking untruth and purging it.—Ted Nelson
“If the button is not shaped like the thought, the thought will end up shaped like the button.”—Ted Nelson
Frauds like Keith Raniere of NXIVM are quick to use “tech,” thus, as a mask. You are what gets packaged, then sold back to yourself.
Dear Rowan, It was lovely to speak with you yesterday on the subject of writing and publishing, and how these things affect us.
I read the introductions to Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib and Dream Machines: two foresighted books published together in 1974.
The computing world is based on one principal system of conventions — the simulation of hierarchy and the simulation of paper. — Ted Nelson Twitter icon
The potential of technology to empower is being subverted by tyrannical user interface design, enabled by our data and attention. Medium icon