Chris Sherman
02-27-2005, 11:50 PM
Sixty years ago, a scientist named Vannevar Bush wrote a remarkably prescient essay in which he painted his vision of a "memex... a sort of mechanized private file and library." In 1945, when computers were little more than bulky, awkward calculators, Bush expounded on concepts we recognize today as personal computers, massive digital memory storage and "associative linking."
Today's SearchDay article, Envisioning the Web, 60 Years Ago (http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3486006), pays tribute to this essay. If you're interested in the history of information and ideas, this old but influential essay is a seminal work that's well worth reading.
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Today's SearchDay article, Envisioning the Web, 60 Years Ago (http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3486006), pays tribute to this essay. If you're interested in the history of information and ideas, this old but influential essay is a seminal work that's well worth reading.
Comments welcome!