Ted Nelson Quote

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' — it sounds so objective and inexorable — when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.


Quoted in In Venting, a Computer Visionary Educates by John Markoff, published January 10, 2009 in the New York Times, page BU4 of the New York edition.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11stre...


I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' — it sounds so objective and inexorable — when most...

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' — it sounds so objective and inexorable — when most...

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' — it sounds so objective and inexorable — when most...

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term 'computer technology' — it sounds so objective and inexorable — when most...