Ted Nelson's Xanadu
- failed project to create a hypertext device sort of like the Memex
- Nelson coined the word "hypertext" at Swarthmore. hooray!
Tim Berners-Lee's Semantic Web
- Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and now wants it to be more flexible
- again, the idea of computers simulating human thought and being able to function in intuitive ways
- ability for people to make up their own coding languages
- letting computers do everyday tasks, leaving people to be creative