Ted Nelson on Hypertext

Ted Nelson, a computer scientist from the 1960's, created the concept of hypertext, along with that specific term. 

It is hard to say that Nelson was ahead of his time, since the 1960's was a decade of serious progress in the field of computer science. It is fair, however, to say that Nelson, in the way in which he thought of hypertext, seems to be ahead of his time. In fact, as the article explains, may of Nelson's concepts were actually more complex than the hyperlink that we know of today. 

I think that Nelson was referring to a more intelligent version of the hypertext we know today, and that we should remember that today's hyperlinks are only one part of a much larger system that he was envisioning when he wrote this paper.