Literary Machines

By Theodor Holm Nelson

Ted Nelson's visionary 1980 book, which defined the term "hypertext" and foretold the Worldwide Web. A rare and historic book. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893470554
• ISBN13: 9780893470555
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Mindful Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Break open your thinking about computer usage

If there were an award for most provocative theory on the uses of computers, Ted Nelson would win it hands down. This book is a guide to the creative application of computing power, led by the relentlessly enthusiastic inventor of HyperText and HyperMedia. Nelson is a Populist, a bringer of freedom to the Artist, Writer, Musician, Photographer, Filmmaker or Poet who envisions the Screen as a portal to some new possibility of expression. If you are feeling limited by the boundaries of traditional computing and want to strike a blow for Computer Liberation, get this book!

an extraordinary trip into the Docuverse

This is a flattened example of hypertext in three levels by the inventor of the word... it is provocative and evocative... it violates all the rules by being unusually personal yet candid... while examining a subject which is both philosophical as well as pragmatic... it is *the* seminal work on hypertext