there is a video on entailment meshes from gordon pask.

pask and nelson were friends. the first one spoke too fast and was not always that clear what he meant, the second one named his project xanadu and got some credits. pask's name for hypertext was conversation theory, randulph glanville, one of his scholars, says.

there is a legend, someone was telling: nelson and pask were smoking joints. a reporter was coming in, i don't know which paper, something like nyt. and while gordon was passing away, not speaking very clearly anyhow, nelson was cristal clear. and so he became the hero of the story. there should be a picture of evidence somewhere ... was told that was not the truth, so well, would have been a nice story, but isn't after all.

one line i will remember from paul pangaro goes somehow like: what we have now on the web is maybe communication but not at all conversation. but that is what gordon pask was heading at, already 1956, with his musicolour, inspired by

Lerner's well conceived system Colour Music (presented at the Soviet Exhibition in London, 1961), to the fascinating work of Nicolas Schoffer.

musicolour (audio/mpeg, 977 KB)

what data is or is not "ideologically driven" is an interesting one. but i am not convinced it can be answered by having more experience, aka being around far longer.

there may be a problem with the perception of cybernetic 2nd, anyhow as long as people like inselberg are around, i don't worry but enjoy. he was telling how he met foerster back in 1957 or so and recalled the first peep show he saw on a screen. guess he taked about sensorama and the belly dance ...

In 1956, Morton Heilig began designing the first multisensory virtual experiences | a critical history of computer graphics and animation

von foerster was seeking a mathematician and inselberg a job during summer; he ended up to study acoustic and the ear at bcl. 17 years later the paper about that research appeared. (- there is something wrong with the dates, ... but that's probably the problem of the observer ... or is it mmatic?