Tools & Craft Podcast: Ted Nelson

Interview transcript: For more episodes of the Pioneers series including photos and transcripts, please visit: Ted Nelson is the founding designer of Xanadu, the world’s first hypertext project. Xanadu’s influence on the Internet as we know it today is unmistakable. Ted coined the word “hypertext“ to describe non-sequential writing — but clickable links are only the start of his expansive vision for digital technology. His ideas have influenced projects ranging from Objective-C to the original WWW to entire political philosophies about the role computing tools should play in our lives. Notion: Devon: