How things have changed over the decades
I thought this rings a classic tune to where Bitcoin is now
Old history lesson an interview from the 1970s with a reporter skeptical about computers and their potential utility with Ted Nelson.
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/science-technology/computers/inventing-the-internet-age/computers-beyond-computing.htmlAudio file
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Background information
American Ted Nelson, identified here as the president of Computopia, is an internet pioneer with a strange legacy. He was one of the first to envision interlinked online documents, and is credited with inventing the term "hypertext" to describe how computers could access branching, non-linear writing. Hypertext is the basis of the World Wide Web.
. Nelson is infamous for designing a mysterious computer hypertext and multimedia system called Xanadu. He began working on it in 1960 and it has been in continuous development ever since, without ever actually being published. Xanadu was (and for some, still is) an ambitious vision for interconnected electronic documents called "deep hypertext." The key technique envisioned was a sort of "embedding" of content from original sources into a "virtual file," unlike the system of copying and one-way links employed by the World Wide Web.
Found the full clip for context
https://archive.org/details/ideas-maxallen-tednelson
