“A computer is essentially a trained squirrel: acting on reflex, thoughtlessly running back and forth and storing away nuts until some other stimulus makes it do something else… We make the computer do our bidding”. I will admit, that quote made me chuckle a little, before I realised how accurate is really is.

Ted Nelson’s early published work on Hypertext seem at first look something out of highschool physics textbook due to the abundance of diagrams and annotated imagery. But once you attempt to discover what lies within the text it begins to make some sense.

This isn’t so much a summary, more an opinionated observation of the reading. Written in 1992, Nelson addressees his vision of 2020. I was astonished on how accurate his predictions actually were. His hopes of simplifying our lives and having access to a plethora of ideas have not only developed into reality, but thrived.