Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Adam Greenfield on Vannevar Bush

"By contrast, decades before hypertext, HTML or the World Wide Web,
Bush’s memex proposed to allow its user to organize bodies of knowledge
along individualized “trails,” each permanent and immediately available
for lookup in exactly the same way that we might use a Web browser’s
bookmarks. Moreover, any one item could belong to an arbitrary number
of different contextual trails - trails that could be stored
side-by-side in one’s own memex, or passed entire to friends and
colleagues for them to explore at their leisure, like an analogue
del.icio.us."
(see Matthew Chalmers' RECER path model here too, he explicitly did relate this to Bush.)


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