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As We May Think by Vannevar Bush
Heerin Lee
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After a war...
• a growing amount of research• however, our methods of transmitting and
reviewing the results of research are old• scientific efforts should make all previous
collected human knowledge more accessible through machine
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Progress in recording
• dry photography - used in facsimile transmission• microfilm - The Encyclopedia Britannica could be
reduced to the volume of a matchbox• tiny camera fitted with universal-focus lens - move freely and record the worthy
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Progress in writing
• Voder - emits recognizable speech of stroked key • Vocoder - converse of Voder• Vannevar Bush predict a new machine: - take dictation - type it automatically - talk back if the author wants to review what he
just said
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Selection in researches
• creative aspect of thinking• involve the entire process by which man profits
by his inheritance of acquired knowledge• automatic telephone exchange etc.• the way human mind works - association
- things are connected by association of thoughts
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Memex
• an electromechanical device• an individual desk with screens, a keyboard,
buttons, levers• a user can store all his books, records, and
communications as microfilm• a user could add or remove microfilm reels at
will• personal computer, online encyclopedias
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Associative trail
• a way to create a new linear sequence of microfilm frames across any arbitrary sequence of microfilm frames by creating a chained sequence of links with personal comments and side trails
• bookmarks, search by a keyword, hypertext system etc.