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"Computers for Cynics 2 - It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC" by Ted Nelson (2012)

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6SUOeAqOjU&amp;t=0s>

I did a deep dive on Ted Nelson and his work a few months ago. I bought a couple of books including the infamous computer lib. I think it’s fascinating to take a trip into the mind of Ted Nelson and there are valuable ideas in there, but also a bit of an alternate reality. I don’t think you can take everything on face value, but nevertheless worth exploring.

"In order to sell printers, they threw away the universe"

would it actually have been better if xerox tried to corner the PC market?