VANNEVAR BUSH INTRODUCES THE IDEA OF HYPERTEXT."As We May Think," in: The Atlantic Monthly, 176, no 1, July 1945, 4to (269 x 195 mm). Original wrappers, housed in custom morocco-backed folder. Creases to wrappers, faded library stamp to front wrapper.
FIRST APPEARANCE OF THIS FAMOUS PREMONITION OF THE INTERNET. Vannevar Bush here advocates for science to extend the reach of the mind rather than only the physical being and introduces the idea of hypertext. From the article: "Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name and to coin one at random, 'memex' will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory ... 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 ... Thus Science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of race."
Bush's article would inspire engineer Doug Engelbart to invent the mouse, the word processor and the hyperlink and Ted Nelson to further develop a hypertext system in his Xanadu. Hook & Norman Origins of Cyberspace 519; Tomash & Williams B296.
VANNEVAR BUSH INTRODUCES THE IDEA OF HYPERTEXT."As We May Think," in: The Atlantic Monthly, 176, no 1, July 1945, 4to (269 x 195 mm). Original wrappers, housed in custom morocco-backed folder. Creases to wrappers, faded library stamp to front wrapper.
FIRST APPEARANCE OF THIS FAMOUS PREMONITION OF THE INTERNET. Vannevar Bush here advocates for science to extend the reach of the mind rather than only the physical being and introduces the idea of hypertext. From the article: "Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name and to coin one at random, 'memex' will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory ... 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 ... Thus Science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of race."
Bush's article would inspire engineer Doug Engelbart to invent the mouse, the word processor and the hyperlink and Ted Nelson to further develop a hypertext system in his Xanadu. Hook & Norman Origins of Cyberspace 519; Tomash & Williams B296.
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