Berners-Lee and Nelson

Poor, stubborn Nelson.
After reading the articles on Nelson and Berners-Lee one could definatly see the differences in their habbits. Although Berners-Lee is acknollged for inventing the internet, it seems more like he did the right thing at the right time and it caught on. Although he did create what we now use as the internet, he didn't seem to have the grand scheme in mind of what it could become. Nelson however did. His ideas on how a network should be are broad and intrepid. He is acknolleged for coining the term hypertext.
The problem with Nelson is that he doesnt understand the nature of his own work. Berners-Lee worked on and invented the internet not because he had an amazing idea and goal and stuck with it until it was complete, he invented it because he needed a world wide netwrk to do his work. Nelson refuses Berner Lee's work because it isnt as ambitious as his own. however the nature of a network is not to be perfect. when a network begins it is small and poor. An more people join it it grows, and it becomes better, and over time it becomes the very thing Nelson imagined it could be. The great thing about the world wide web is that it is world wide. It's constantly being improved on because EVERYONE in the world is using it and adapting it and growing it. the information just keeps growing at a more and more rapid pace, at a pace to where Nelson is so far behind he could never catch up.
Many of the ideas Nelson had hoped to accomplish are already being invented and improved upon. Wikipedia for instance is an onlie source site that can be improved on by anyone and everyone with information to share. the very information for this essay came from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text. The site is created, grows and is edited and changed by the consumer, the very people who are reading and needing the information. Because of this it wil always be what is understood to be correct. What is known is only what people have decided to be true. If the general consencous is that the world is round, than the people will write "the world is round" and nobody will edit or chalange it. Therefore this site is the peak of human knollege and will still continue to grow.
Nelson is too ambitious in his goals. He wants to create something in his head that is perfect, when perfection is never just created, it is shaped from imperfection. His stubborn behavior is his flaw. The ADD probubly doesnt help much either. The glory that is the internet is because it is collaborative, it is the collective knollege of all mankind, not one man. Thats why I say: poor stubborn Nelson.