Tornado-like destruction? Did I sleep through a tornado?
Sounds like this guy is a little grumpy.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alicia Henn" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 6:34 PM
Subject: It could have been so different



Here's an interesting article about Theodor Holm Nelson, an early
intellect in the creation of the world wide web.

"One-way links can be easily broken, and there is no simple way to
preserve authorship and credit, as was possible with a project called
Xanadu that Mr. Nelson began in the 1960s. His two-way links might
have avoided the Web’s tornado-like destruction of the economic value
of the printed word, he has contended, by incorporating a system of
micropayments."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11stream.html?th&emc=th




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