created, $=dv.current().file.ctime & modified, =this.modified
tags: Computers
rel: Ted Nelson
Two pieces - Computer Lib (to know more about computers, which are changeable devices for twiddling symbols.)
Part two: is meant to let you see the choice of dreams. Noting that every company and university seems to insist that its system is the wave of the future. I think it is more important than ever to have alternatives spread out clearly.
Dream Machines
If the computer is a projective system, or Rorschach Inkblot, as alleged on the other side, the real projective systems— the ones with projectors in them— are all the more so. The things people try to do with movies, TV and the more glamorous uses of the computer, whereby it makes pictures on screens— are strange inversions and foldovers of the rest of the mind and heart. That’s the peculiar origami of the self.
M y special concern, all too tightly framed here , is the use of computers to help people write, think and s h o w . But I think presentation b y computer is a branch of s h o w biz and writing, not of psychology, engineering or pedagogy . This would be idle disputation if it did not have far-reaching consequences for the designs of the systems w e are all going to have to live with. At worst, I fear these m a y lock us in; at best, 1 hope they can further the individualistic traditions of literature, film and scholarship. But we must create our brave new worlds with art, zest, intelligence, and the highest possible ideals.
The reason is, and by rights ought lo be , slave to the emotions.” Bertrand Russell.quote