[Rhodes22-list] Chaos

[Robert Skinner]

We might also want to thank Ted Nelson and the 
Zanadu Project for contributions to the hyperlink 
concepts.

/Robert
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Ronald Lipton wrote:
> 
> As long as you are thanking DARPA, you should also thank Particle
> Physicists
> and CERN, which invented and promulgated the HTTP protocols and web
> standards.
> 
> I have been working on projects related to some DARPA-funded initiatives
> and have been
> impressed by how focussed and effective much of the DARPA-funded work
> is.  It
> is very different then the usual peer review system for funding grants.
> The government
> funded work is also one of the only things keeping at least some high
> tech industry
> onshore.
> 
> Ron
> 
> Bill Effros wrote:
> > Brad,
> >
> > It is really remarkable that we can have an open conversation like this
> > all over the world virtually simultaneously at no cost.
> >
> > (Thank you big government and DARPA -- some of this shit works!)
> >
> > Have you read Chaos by James Gleick?  I am totally absorbed by it, and
> > it is changing my life (as my best friend who has been trying to get me
> > to read it for the past 20 years told me it would.)
> >
> > The name is good for selling books, but bad for describing the concept.
> >
> > It is all I've been thinking about lately--the election is just a side-show.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
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