As We May Think
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"As We May Think" is a 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush which has been described as visionary and influential, anticipating many aspects of information society. It was first published in The Atlantic in Ju
The Memex
Vannevar Bush
Memex
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A memex is a hypothetical electromechanical device for interacting with microform documents and described in Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device in wh
As We May Think
…scientific efforts toward destruction, rather than understanding, and explicates a desire for a sort of collective memory machine with his concept of the memex that would make knowledge more accessible, believing that it would help fix these problems. Through this machine, Bush hoped to transform an information…
Interpretation of the MEMEX at German Museum of Technology
Hypertext Editing System (HES) IBM 2250 Display console – Brown University 1969