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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
To grow in wisdom: vannevar bush, information overload, and the life of leisure
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
From Bush to Engelbart: 'Slowly, Some Little Bells Were Ringing'
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Past visions of hypertext and their influence on us today
Proceedings of the 21st ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
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At 65 'As We May Think' has reached its pensionable age but as yet is showing no signs of retiring. As a researcher within the Web Science and Hypertext domains, and as a member of SIGWEB, I already know who Vannevar Bush is and understand the importance of his work to my field. I know that he proposed the MEMEX, an analogue information system using microfilm which is seen as the distant forerunner to our current hypertext systems, and indeed, the World Wide Web. Luminaries such as Theodor Holm Nelson and Doug Engelbart have credited Bush as being the inspiration for their own work in hypertext and distributed systems such as the Web. So what more can we say about Vannevar Bush and the work which spurred the creation of the Hypertext field. It seems to me that Bush's main ideas have never been more important than they are today. Indeed, the idea of association and its importance for the automation and augmentation of human thought and cognition still has resonance even today. Indeed, these concepts and the solutions they imply have become even more important than when they where first conceived, and throughout the 50s and 60s.