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In "As We May Think" Vannevar Bush Envisions Mechanized Information Retrieval and the Concept of Hypertext
In July American Engineer Vannevar Bush published a popular description of the aims of his Rapid Selector information retrieval machine in his article, As We May Think, that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Vol. , No. 1 () This visionary paper described the Memex,” an electromechanical microfilm machine, which Bush began developing conceptually in As conceived, the Memex was capable of making permanent associative links in information. Features of the hypothetical Memex foreshadowed aspects of the personal computer and hyperlinks on the Internet. Bush was unable to patent his Rapid Selector because of its similarity to aspects of prior work on electronic document retrieval previously patented by Emanuel Goldberg.
On September 10, Bush published a condensed, illustrated version of "As We May Think" in Life magazine, 19, No. 11 () , , , Life's editors added the following subtitle: "A Top U.S. Scientist Foresees a Possible Future World in Which Man-Made Machines Will Start to Think." They also replaced the Atlantic Monthly's numbered sections with headings, and added illustrations of
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Memex
Hypothetical proto-hypertext system that was first described by Vannevar Bush in
For the software company, see Memex Technology Limited.
Memex [memory expansion] is a hypothetical electromechanical device for interacting with microform documents and described in Vannevar Bush's article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility". The individual was supposed to use the memex as an automatic personal filing system, making the memex "an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory".[1]
The concept of the memex influenced the development of early hypertext systems, eventually leading to the creation of the World Wide Web, and personal knowledge base software.[2] The hypothetical implementation depicted by Bush for the purpose of concrete illustration was based upon a document bookmark list of static microfilm pages and lacked a true hypertext system, where parts of pages would have internal structure beyond the common textual format.
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