9 Aug
2014
9 Aug
'14
10:22 a.m.
On 8 August 2014 01:26, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
Amusing 20 min interview on the CBC from 1979, in
which Ted Nelson tries to
convince the vision-less interviewer of the benefits and future of personal
computers. Ted gets a little snarky to counter the derision of the
interviewer.
http://www.cbc.ca/rewind/episode/2014/08/07/robots-1/
(Hit the listen link, the Ted Nelson portion starts around 29:00, or listen
to the whole thing (may have to wait for the audio to load to be able to
skip forward)).
Absolutely fascinating -- thanks for that.
I just now tweeted it, but I see it already has been, quite widely,
including one with a HT to classiccmp.
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