Vannevar Bush, the engineer who designed the world's most powerful analog computer, predicted the development of a new kind of computing machine he called Memex. For many computer and information scientists, Bush's Memex has been the prototype for a machine to help people think. This book contains Bush's essays, and original essays by academic and commerical researchers relating the state of art in personal computing, hypertext and information retrieval software to bush's ideas and Memex.
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Vannevar Bush was Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. In the
July 1945 edition of the Atlantic Monthly, he published a popular science article entitled
"As We May Think." Bush discusses a device called a "memex", a sort of workstation with vast optical storage
and mechanical information retrieval using associative indexing and "trails". The article is
of interest today not only because he happened to get pretty close to how the future finally
turned out, but also for the fresh perspective from a time before interactivity itself had been
invented.
It is also curious to see what he got wrong. Unlike our present day Visionaries, he
completely failed to anticipate the introduction of Microsoft Windows on the PC.
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ONE DAY IN 1942, THE ROCKEFELLER DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZER was dedicated to winning the war. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rapid selector, science pauses, dry photography, product integraph, citation context analysis, memex user, memex contents, adjacent viewing positions, disc integrator, trail creation, associative trail, phonetic shorthand, intimate supplement, information retrieval research, differential analyzer, personal information system, thermionic tube, citing documents, analytical machines, hypertext systems, personal machine, user taps, longhand notes, analog machines, history cards Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Vannevar Bush, Atlantic Monthly, Library of Congress, Memex Revisited, United States, World War, William Morrow, Pieces of the Action, American Documentation, Eastman Kodak, Eric Hodgins, Academic Press, The Inscrutable, Warren Weaver, John Howard, Bureau of Ships, Harold Hazen, Human Factors, National Bureau of Standards, Profile Tracer, Richard Bush, Rockefeller Foundation, Scripted Documents, Cambridge University Press New!
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rapid selector, science pauses, dry photography, product integraph, citation context analysis, memex user, memex contents, adjacent viewing positions, disc integrator, trail creation, associative trail, phonetic shorthand, intimate supplement, information retrieval research, differential analyzer, personal information system, thermionic tube, citing documents, analytical machines, hypertext systems, personal machine, user taps, longhand notes, analog machines, history cards Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Vannevar Bush, Atlantic Monthly, Library of Congress, Memex Revisited, United States, World War, William Morrow, Pieces of the Action, American Documentation, Eastman Kodak, Eric Hodgins, Academic Press, The Inscrutable, Warren Weaver, John Howard, Bureau of Ships, Harold Hazen, Human Factors, National Bureau of Standards, Profile Tracer, Richard Bush, Rockefeller Foundation, Scripted Documents, Cambridge University Press New!
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- Endless Horizons (History , Philosophy & Sociology of Science) by Vannevar Bush on 6 pages
- The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design by Brenda Laurel on 4 pages
- Literary Machines on page 287, page 320, and page 337
- Information Retrieval Research by R. N. Oddy on page 66, page 285, and page 338
- World Brain (Essay Index Reprint Series) by H. G. Wells on page 50, and page 66
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- The Theory and Criticism of Virtual Texts: An Annotated Bibliography, 1988-1999 by Lory Hawkes on 8 pages
- Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond (Interactive Technologies) by Jakob Nielsen in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Multimedia: A Critical Introduction by Richard Wise on page 23, page 40, and Back Matter
- Hypertext 2.0: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) by Professor George P. Landow in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information (Blackwell Philosophy Guides) by Luciano Floridi on page 258, and page 259
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