Vannevar Bush seems to imply or assume that somewhere along the
line someone would create a usable user interface that would
correspond to his description here. I think we're still waiting
on that. (01)
Mike (02)
> Both Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson had "factored in" those
ideas many decades ago. A quotation from VB's article "As We May
Think":
>> 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. The lawyer has at his touch the associated
>> opinions and decisions of his whole experience, and of the experience
>> of friends and authorities. The patent attorney has on call the millions
>> of issued patents, with familiar trails to every point of his client's
>> interest. The physician, puzzled by a patient's reactions, strikes the
>> trail established in studying an earlier similar case, and runs rapidly
>> through analogous case histories, with side references to the classics
>> for the pertinent anatomy and histology. ... The historian, with a vast
>> chronological account of a people, parallels it with a skip trail which
>> stops only on the salient items, and can follow at any time contemporary
>> trails which lead him all over civilization at a particular epoch. There
>> is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task
>> of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record.
>> The inheritance from the master becomes, not only his additions to the
>world's
>> record, but for his disciples the entire scaffolding by which they were
>erected.
> This sounds rather familiar today. But VB wrote it in 1947.
>
> John
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