Ted Nelson
Autore di Computer Lib/Dream Machines (Tempus)
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Ted Nelson gives a presentation on Project Xanadu for SuperHappyDevHouse at The Tech Museum of Innovation on February 19th, 2011. By Dgies - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13691666
Opere di Ted Nelson
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Nelson, Ted
- Nome legale
- Nelson, Theodor Holm
- Data di nascita
- 1937
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 10
- Opere correlate
- 2
- Utenti
- 431
- Popolarità
- #56,717
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 14
- Preferito da
- 2
Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this book. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that it's embarrassingly bad. If you had told me that it was put together by a high school student who pasted together scraps from Wikipedia, I'd have believed you. It's not just badly written; it's sloppy.
It's true that some of Nelson's unique perspective colors his account of computing history, but I doubt that the reader unfamiliar with his other work would come away with much of an understanding of why some of us find his ideas exciting. Meanwhile, as history, Geeks Bearing Gifts is virtually useless.
I wish that Nelson had put his energy into a first-hand account of his experiences instead of this shoddy attempt to (re)write history. That would have been an original contribution and probably also quite entertaining. Geeks Bearing Gifts is neither.… (altro)