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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
