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2006-05-06-nelsonet

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Ted Nelson: "It may not look it, but much of the action in computers has already ended. In the next decade they'll simply stamp out machines like those we already know although with new interconnections, at lower and lower prices with, we hope, better and better software. But the real action now is in Networks, Protocols, Standards [...], Encryption and Databases; and at least one war of shadows in Washington may determine our freedoms as users and citizens. And you may have already won! But eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, so read carefully." — in Creative Computing, 1981.