Book Review: Geeks Bearing Gifts

Posted by scrubs on Jan 11, 2010 7:48 PM EDT
Free Software Magazine; By Rudolph Olah
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The book Geeks Bearing Gifts, by Ted Nelson is a collage of computing history book. Not only does it directly cover computers, it also covers the origins of ideas that we see in computers. While short, it does go over many interesting things. Ted Nelson is a writer well-known for promoting his ideas for Project Xanadu, a hypertext system that was designed before the Web. Nelson, a self-proclaimed visionary, has been treated as a fringe figure in the computing industry even though his ideas are well-reasoned and well-thought out. Read the full review at Free Software Magazine.

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