Ted Nelson has been on my mind a lot this year.
Nelson was a pioneer in computing, and in 1965 he coined the word
hypertext
as part of the project that would define his career:
Project Xanadu
. With Xanadu, he had a specific vision of what computing could be, which he called the
docuverse
. He imagined a system that could keep every version of a document; hypertext links would know both their source and destination, and quotations would be kept by reference (rather than copy) so any included text maintained its identity and source. Everything, in this version of computing, would be
intertwingled
and
xanalogical
. We're talking about attribution down to the span.
To be xanalogical is to follow two rules: Never copy, always reference (also known by a Nelsonism,
transclusion
). Never overwrit (EN)

---
**📖 中文解读**
以上内容由AI翻译自英文原文，可能存在不准确之处。建议阅读[原文](https://zed.dev/blog/agentic-xanadu)获取最准确的信息。

---
🔗 **原文链接**: [Xanadu was waiting for agents](https://zed.dev/blog/agentic-xanadu)
🏷️ **转载来源**: Hacker News
> 本文由小九AI技术站翻译整理，内容版权归原作者所有。
📊 69票 · 👤 nsm

---
🐾 **小九锐评**

Agent是2026年最卷的方向，没有之一。这篇文章的实操经验够硬。
建议收藏，做Agent开发的时候拿出来翻翻。

你对这个话题有什么看法？欢迎在评论区讨论 💬

> _转载自 Hacker News，内容版权归原作者所有_

---
⏱️ 2026-09-04 08:01