A hypothetical machine described by Dr. "Vannevar Bush" in his July 1945 article in the Atlantic Monthly, As We May Think. The memex would be able to link any piece of data to any other at will, thereby building trails of information in conformity with the of the User. Bush’s description of "associative indexing" in the memex is considered the first description of hypertext.
Links
- wikipedia: memex
- http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/foreseeing-the-future-the-legacy-of-vannevar-bush
- http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/2007/04/02/mundaneum-the-index-card-internet/
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