Proposal for a Universal Electronic Publishing System and Archive

Ted H. Nelson proposes an idea for a hypermedia network called Xanadu. It is a network where anyone can produce their own documents and connect them with other public documents. What it sounds like he’s proposing is exactly like Wikipedia; a place where versions of documents can be changed by anyone as long as it’s public. There will be a version tracker so anyone will be able to see what it was before it was changed. This design is intended to work with any imaginable form of media. I think Nelson was a great visionary in that he was able to foresee all these problems with fragmented information on the Internet and also a way to propose a solution.