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Ted Nelson (whose mother just died), J. C. R. Licklider, Douglas Englebart, and John Lilly were all funded by the info sciences division of

Hello everyone, Below is a query that John D. Peters, a communications professor at the University of Iowa has asked me to pass on in case anyone has any knowledge on this rather specific topic. He is not a SIGCIS member, so please send responses to him directly at john-peters@uiowua.edu. HIS QUERY: the USAF in the 1960s under Harold Wooster.  There is a pervasive metaphor in cetacean science and in pop culture about dolphins living in an internet-like world of distributed cognition (Denise Herzing and Peter Tyack both use it for instance) and I'd like to know if there was actual contact.  Nelson seems to have worked for Lilly as a photographer http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_nelson.htm and Graham Burnett’s Sounding of the Whale (2012, p. 615) mentions Nelson’s work with Lilly briefly.  Do you know of any citations in Nelson or Licklider to Lilly’s work, or to dolphins as metaphors for distributed computing? <<<< Best wishes, Tom