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Dr. Vannevar Bush
Vannevar is thinking about the future of research and prompts the idea that our current methods for research are outdated.
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Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose.
Tribute to Charles Babbage
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Babbage, even with remarkably generous support for his time, could not produce his great arithmetical machine.
Why is a girl the one who used this machine
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At a recent World Fair a machine called a Voder was shown. A girl stroked its keys and it emitted recognizable speech.
His idea of how the Memex would work
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The owner of the memex, let us say, is interested in the origin and properties of the bow and arrow. Specifically he is studying why the short Turkish bow was apparently superior to the English long bow in the skirmishes of the Crusades. He has dozens of possibly pertinent books and articles in his memex. First he runs through an encyclopedia, finds and interesting but sketchy article, leaves it projected, Next, in a history, he finds another pertinent item, and ties the two together. Thus he goes, building a trail of many items.
This idea implies that the memex can be a collaborative library of information
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Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.
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Part 1 - Precontext to Technology