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Designing Synced Blocks Share this post Having coined terms like hypertext and hyperlinks, the ideas of computer pioneer Ted Nelson helped define the web as we know it today. At the core of his beliefs was the desire for computers to go beyond paper — if you think about it, a word processor isn’t much different than a typewriter. The way he saw it, computers should extend our capabilities. But many of Ted’s ideas never came to fruition. One of those was transclusion, which was supposed to be part of Project Xanadu, his hypertext model founded in 1960. When we interviewed Nelson for our ...

Hutchinson received more than a dozen lifeguard applications after a call for more guards went out, though that's still down from its optimum number.

Lifeguard shortage could reduce Splash hours They don’t expect it to impact the pool’s summer opening, but Hutchinson city officials said a shortage of lifeguards could result in reduced hours for the Salt City Splash Aquatic Center. “For the first time since the Salt City Splash opened, I’ve had to come to one of these meetings and forecast some issues with staffing this year,” Hutch Rec Director Tony Finlay advised the Hutchinson City Council Tuesday morning. “We’re having a rough time finding enough lifeguards to open.” Finlay said after the meeting that they are still expe...

The data model behind Notion's flexibility ByJake Teton-Landis Share this post A generation of pioneers (Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson, Alan Kay, and many more) saw the computer as tool to augment human problem-solving by giving people power over information. Today, that information mostly remains siloed across tools. Take cloud-based document editors, where pages are their smallest atomic unit. Information is locked inside of pages and files and folders — that’s reminiscent of how things were done a century ago. We built Notion on a framework that allows information to stand on its own, fr...

Activision Blizzard CEO Says A Ready Player One-Like Metaverse Is Coming "I think we're rapidly progressing towards that as a legitimate mass-market experience." The so-called Metaverse is coming, according to Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick. He told GamesBeat in a new interview that he believes that, thanks to advancements to AR and VR, along with local processing power and distributed processing through the cloud, a legitimate, Ready Player One-like Metaverse might be here before you know it. "Think back to the '70s and early '80s, people like Ted Nelson were articulating a vision for ...