Dave Farber
2018-10-29 01:22:36 UTC
Date: October 29, 2018 9:51:13 JST
Subject: We stand on the shoulders of giants
David Brin
37 mins ·
Anyone seeking to understand the brilliant, early conceptualists who foresaw some of our eraâs wonders should be familiar with names like J.D. Bernal and John Von Neumann and Alan Turing. And especially Vannevar Bush, whose essay âAs we may thinkâ shortly after WWII squinted at a future when all people might have access to most of the worldâs information. Now a group has brought Bushâs proposed âMemexâ system to life and the video is very interesting. Though it would have been good to have it explained that the sound effects were meant to mimic what Bush expected, which was physically accessing microfilms and mico-fiches.
See Vannevar Bushâs original Memex article. (1945)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/?fbclid=IwAR1K0gsCOjkEfK_UXrUN8orjC3hz0oyDjFaitFkpnY1xtRoOY04osirsZ0U
-------------------------------------------Subject: We stand on the shoulders of giants
David Brin
37 mins ·
Anyone seeking to understand the brilliant, early conceptualists who foresaw some of our eraâs wonders should be familiar with names like J.D. Bernal and John Von Neumann and Alan Turing. And especially Vannevar Bush, whose essay âAs we may thinkâ shortly after WWII squinted at a future when all people might have access to most of the worldâs information. Now a group has brought Bushâs proposed âMemexâ system to life and the video is very interesting. Though it would have been good to have it explained that the sound effects were meant to mimic what Bush expected, which was physically accessing microfilms and mico-fiches.
See Vannevar Bushâs original Memex article. (1945)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/?fbclid=IwAR1K0gsCOjkEfK_UXrUN8orjC3hz0oyDjFaitFkpnY1xtRoOY04osirsZ0U
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