Computer Lib / Dream Machines

Ted Nelson

1974

Book

Self-published, Chicago
First edition cover (“Seven Dollars”)
Paperback, bound back to back
10.75"x14"

The Library

Description

Computer Lib / Dream Machines, which Ted Nelson, the founder of the hypertext project Xanadu, published himself in 1974, is two books bound back to back. The Dream Machines half covers computer graphics and film, with pages on Kenneth Knowlton’s BEFLIX movies, his work with Stan VanDerBeek and Lillian Schwartz, and John Whitney, whom Nelson calls “the ancestor of us all.”

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