When people write papers about New Media and The Web, they often cite Vannevar Bush's 1945 article in The Atlantic, “As We May Think”. We had a 65th anniversary panel about the paper at Hypertext 2010, at which I was the designated heretic. My position is that Bush’s paper is essentially a popular science article. It gets some things right, some wrong. It’s cavalier about its sources – especially the very important w…
That's interesting stuff that I didn't have a clue about, thank you. How do you know Bush was aware of Goldbergs work ?
a) Goldberg said he met with Bush and told him about it.
b) Bush had a patent application denied because of Goldberg's prior art.