Vannevar Bush, the engineer who designed the world's most powerful analog computer, predicted the development of a new kind of computing machine he called Memex. For many computer and information scientists, Bush's Memex has been the prototype for a machine to help people think. This book contains Bush's essays, and original essays by academic and commercial researchers relating the state of art in personal computing, hypertext and information retrieval software to bush's ideas and Memex.
Author(s): James M. Nyce; Paul Kahn
Publisher: Academic Press
Year: 1991
Language: English
Commentary: from https://monoskop.org/log/?p=11747
Pages: 367
Tags: Vannevar Bush, Memex, Hypertext
Contributors vii
Preface ix
Part 1: The Creation of Memex
Vannevar Bush and the Differential Analyzer: The Text and Context of an Early Computer 3
Larry Owens
A Machine for the Mind: Vannevar Bush's Memex 39
Janes M. Nyce and Paul Kahn
The Inscrutable 'Thirties 67
Vannevar Bush
Memorandum Regarding Memex 81
Vannevar Bush
As We May Think 85
Vannevar Bush
Part 2: The Extension of Memex
The Idea of a Machine: The Later Memex Essays 113
Paul Kahn and James M. Nyce
A Practical View of Memex: The Career of the Rapid Selector 145
Colin Burke
Memex II 165
Vannevar Bush
Science Pauses 185
Vannevar Bush
Memex Revisited 197
Vannevar Bush
From "Of Inventions and Inventors" 217
Vannevar Bush
Part 3: The Legacy of Memex
Letter to Vannevar Bush and Program On Human Effectiveness 235
Douglas C. Engelbart
As We Will Think 245
Theodor H. Nelson
Memex as an Image of Potentiality Revisited 261
Linda C. Smith
Hypertext-Does It Reduce Cholesterol, Too? 287
Norman Meyrowitz
Memex: Getting Back on the Trail 319
Tim Oren
Aristotle's Library: Memex as Vision and Hypertext as Reality 339
Gregory Crane
From Trailblazing to Guided Tours: The Legacy of Vannevar Bush's Vision of Hypertext Use 353
Randall H. Trigg
