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Vannevar Bush's ideas about information organization and consumption in the future were eerily accurate. Reading about the history of Memex and the roots of the Information Architecture field in general is something I highly recommend for anyone interested in Information Science, etc.
Recommended book(s)?
You can read Bush's original paper, As We May Think (where he presents the Memex) here:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma...
Here is a database of his papers: http://findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=...