Designer, Generalist, Contrarian.

Best known for: coining terms “hypertext” and “hypermedia,” 1963 (first published 1965), and as founder and pursuer of Project Xanadu, which has been widely misunuderstood. – http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~ted/

links

• homepage at keio university http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~ted/
• Xanalogical Media in various forms → http://www.xanadu.net http://www.udanax.com
• ZigZag™
• feed magazine article http://www.feedmag.com/html/document/98.02nelson/intro.html
• Embedded Markup Considered Harmful http://www.xml.com/pub/a/w3j/s3.nelson.html