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From Memex To Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine
Vannevar Bush, the engineer who designed the world's most powerful analog computer, predicted the development of a new kind of computing machine he called Memex. For many computer and information scientists, Bush's Memex has been the prototype for a machine to help people think. This book contains Bush's essays, and original essays by academic and commerical researchers relating the state of art in personal computing, hypertext and information retrieval software to bush's ideas and Memex.
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367 pages, Hardcover
First published December 17, 1991
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November 20, 2013
"For mature thought there is no mechanical substitute."
"Prophesy based on extension of the known has substance, while prophesy founded on the unknown is only a doubly involved guess."
"Prophesy based on extension of the known has substance, while prophesy founded on the unknown is only a doubly involved guess."
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