Ted Nelson, 05.10.2011, 13:00, Ars Electronica Center, Seminarraum:

"There's a lot of confusion about what I do."

"I'm a media guy."

"All media are alike."

Presentational techniques: "Writing, Painting, Music, Movies. Movies are the king, because it involves all the others."

"I wish I made movies instead."

"The problem is always creative control."

"I'm one of the persons who have to have creative control."

"I just got this apple thing." In Anspielung an sein mitgebrachtes Macbook Air, die seine Präsentation begleitet.

"Microsoft Word, PDF, Web": "ALLE THE SAME!" - "They immitate paper."

"To immitate paper seems to me to be totally stupid."

"A movie is effects on a screen to reach the heart and mind of a viewer. What is interactive software? Its effects on the screen to reach the mind of a user."

File directory: arbitrary construct that has nailed somebody on the computer.

"They took unix and put lipstick on it. [...] The result was the Macintosh." "Bill Gates said he can do that too and built Windows."

"I got the hypertext idea 1960. [...] I reduced the structure to one-way links. I regret this step."

"In the world wide web the links only go in one way. They also can not overlap."

"Every piece is connected to its origin."

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Transclusion: "Connection of two things are the same. Reason: Addresses of the content are the same." Content included across a boundary.

Link: "Connection of two things are different."

"HTML is a monster out of control."

"Flash is smooooooooooooooooth."

"I don't care."

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