Canadian start up Xanadu (founded in 2016) went IPO via SPAC (Mar 27) on the Nasdaq and TSX stock exchanges under the ticker symbol "XNDU".

Xanadu is building photonics-based quantum computing systems and claims its approach can leverage existing modern chip manufacturing facilities and optical components like fibre optics. https://www.xanadu.ai/press/xanadu-becomes-first-pure-play-photonic-quantum-computing-company-to-go-public #Quantum #QuantumComputing #Xanadu #TSX #NASDAQ #IPO #Photonics #SPAC #Optics #FibreOptics

@whitemice @helge ...maybe worth a read. to me the story of #MEMEX from vennevar bush was always the most inspiring story going into the hc style of applications.

but also ted nelsons ideas of #xanadu are still worthwhile to be considered too.

https://medium.com/the-nextographer/the-hypercard-legacy-e5b9eb273b6a

‘The Magical Place of Literary Memory™: Xanadu’
Belinda Barnet
Screening the Past, 20 Dec 2014

Then all the charm
Is broken-all that phantom world so fair,
Vanishes and a thousand circlets spread,
And each mis-shape the other

(Coleridge, cited by Ted Nelson, ‘Dream Machines’, p. 142)

⭐️⭐️⭐️ A scholarly and deeply entertaining profile of Ted Nelson and his vision of hypertext by @manjusrii

#hypertext #tednelson #xanadu #media
https://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-18-first-release/the-magical-place-of-literary-memory%e2%84%a2-xanadu/

Xanalogical Structure: Now More Than Ever

#xanadu

Xanalogical Structure

#xanadu

The 80s didn’t just sing. They belted.

This week in the Classic 80s Trailer Vault:

🎷 The Blues Brothers
✨ Xanadu
🏁 Grease 2
🎸 Purple Rain

All original trailers. All attitude. All now live.

And it leads straight into Saturday’s Deep Dive:
Why Grease 2 is better than Grease.

Step into the vault 👇
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiFet-zP4QsOt-P_K_kua0vBRbsYpO25d

#movietrailers #80smovies #moviemusicals #musicals #classic80s #TheBluesBrothers #Xanadu #Grease2 #PurpleRain