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Just in case: Vannevar Bush is the ideator of the "Memex", the idea for an (electro-photo-mechanical, desk sized) information organizer, between the miniaturized library with annotation/filing facilities and the personal assistant - a precursor (especially of the documentational side of Decision Support Systems - of which the World Wide Web could be considered a distributed implementation). The article which describe…
Someone did me the favor years ago of pestering me to read As We May Think. If you haven't, you should. It's interesting on its own, but particularly because it was published in the summer before WWII ended (when he was running what to me sounds like a precursor to DARPA). After the war he pushed for the creation of the National Science Foundation. I mention the date specifically because I had to triple check it beca…
Just in case: Vannevar Bush is the ideator of the "Memex", the idea for an (electro-photo-mechanical, desk sized) information organizer, between the miniaturized library with annotation/filing facilities and the personal assistant - a precursor (especially of the documentational side of Decision Support Systems - of which the World Wide Web could be considered a distributed implementation). The article which describe…
Our user interfaces are still not as good as a memex for research.
Bush is an interesting person (I built a desk-sized Memex "reproduction" and am currently building 20 tiny Memex!) but I wonder about using him as a role model. The era of Big Science that he helped create after WWII was wildly one-sided, with most of the money going to the large firms that built the war machine. Many excellent inventions and innovations resulted but all from within ~one worldview and that's not a pr…
And can I recommend taking a look at his website, https://trevor.smith.name , very rich in stimula.
By the way: Trevor has done research and management about Augmented Reality - I have also been a very happy adopter of the AR technology for many years (through the Epson Moverio), to optimize document access time: more clearly, using them as readers through optimized software I wrote. Is not the AR technology a good new option for the development of the memex paradigm?