Xanadu is a system for the network sale of documents with automatic royalty on every byte. The transclusion feature allows quotation of fragments of any size with royalty to the original publisher. This is an implementation of connected literature. It is a system for a point-and-click universe. This is a completely interactive docuverse.
Predictor: Nelson, Ted
Prediction, in context:On the Xanadu Web site, Ted Nelson’s vision for the future of communications is shared. It says: ”Xanadu is a system for the network sale of documents with automatic royalty on every byte. The transclusion feature allows quotation of fragments of any size with royalty to the original publisher. This is an implementation of connected literature. It is a system for a point-and-click universe. This is a completely interactive docuverse.”
Biography:Ted Nelson came up with the idea in 1967 to develop Xanadu, a world-wide electronic publishing system that could serve as a sort of universal library, accessible to everyone. (Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web is a similar-but-smaller-scale system.) Because he was seen as a radical and he wasn’t a trained technology professional, Nelson’s ideas were sometimes ignored. Computer hackers continued working on building the code for Xanadu over the decades. In 1999, the Xanadu code was made open-source. Nelson was known for coining the term “hypertext.” (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: March 23, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Xanadu Web site
Title, headline, chapter name: Xanadu: The Information Future
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Http://www.aus.xanadu.com/xanadu/future.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Ries, Kristin N.