Xanadu: The lost vision of the hypertext future (S04E04)

The Technium

Xanadu was the first hypertext project founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. It aims to facilitate a type of media called hypermedia, which is non-sequential writing in which the reader can choose their own path through an electronic document.

Links/Resources:
http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/14.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
https://mimix.io/en/blog/xanadu
https://sentido-labs.com/en/library/201904240732/Xanadu%20Hypertext%20Documents.html
https://www.notion.so/blog/ted-nelson
https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/
https://xanadu.com.au/ararat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_-5cGEU9S0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPM3GqjMR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGKbRcvIZT8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyzgoeeloJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xYwgJW7T8o
https://jasoncrawford.org/the-lessons-of-xanadu
https://blockprotocol.org/
https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/noosphere/blob/main/design/explainer.md
https://maggieappleton.com/xanadu-patterns
https://aaronzlewis.com/blog/2019/05/01/spreading-threading/
https://www.zombo.com/
https://stratechery.com/concept/aggregation-theory/
https://maggieappleton.com/tools-for-thought
https://cdixon.org/2015/01/31/come-for-the-tool-stay-for-the-network

Chapters:
[00:00:00] Intros
[00:03:22] What is Xanadu?
[00:15:49] Transclusion and Bidirectionality
[00:26:32] Versioning
[00:29:47] Vision divorced from implementation
[00:35:13] Baked in Payments
[00:46:15] Hypermedia as Envisioned
[00:56:20] Tiktok as Hypermedia
[01:01:52] Alternative business model for the web
[01:16:19] Failure to Launch
[01:26:15] Linearization as a forge
[01:31:51] Success of Xanadu's Vision
[01:37:04] Passing the torch

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