Perhaps not a totally original idea as Professor Vannevar Bush had a similar thought back in 1945 when he argued in the Atlantic Monthly that “as humans turned from war, scientific efforts should shift from increasing physical abilities to making...
Were it not for Borges and other visionaries such as American inventor and engineer Vannevar Bush – who predicted the arrival of the “memex,” in which an individual could store all “his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized...
Like many articles about MyLifeBits, this one includes a mention of the 1945 Vannevar Bush article, "As We May Think. In fact, the project's page on the MS Research site calls MyLifeBits, the fulfillment of Vannevar Bush's 1945 Memex vision...
Sixty years ago, Vannevar Bush laid out a passionate vision of an "information appliance" of the future. As We May Think by Vannevar Bush Originally published in the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic Monthly.
Btw, if you've never read Vannevar Bush's July 1945 article, "As We May Think" that discusses his take on "future" personal information management, have a look and read about what he calls the Memex. As web and other databases grow larger and the...
In his legendary 1945 essay, "As We May Think," Vannevar Bush writes: Seruku is not exactly the memex device that Bush describes; it can only save html content. But it is certainly a useful step forward in realizing Bush's vision in today's web world.
Although most of the links point to technical information, there are a number of excellent articles for non-professionals, such as Vannevar Bush's classic As We May Think, the recent U.C. The quality of the indexes, and how the engines use the...
