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Jamie ThomsonVannevar Bush's classic predictions for technology. His concept of "trails" is spurring me to start using delicious more...
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He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge
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Emerson's famous address of 1837 on "The American Scholar,"
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Jean-Francois SavardAs Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incent
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Trapper CallenderArticle written in 1945 by Vannevar Bush. In his article, Bush described a theoretical machine he called a "memex," which was to enhance human memory by allowing the user to store and retrieve documents linked by associations. This associative linking was very similar to what is known today as hypertext. Ted Nelson who later did pioneering work with hypertext credited Bush as his main influence. Others, such as J.C.R. Licklider and Douglas Engelbart have also paid homage to Bush.
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Alan LevineIn this significant article Vannervar Bush holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. For years inventi
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He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge.
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Dr. Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge
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Of what lasting benefit has been man's use of science and of the new instruments which his research brought into existence?
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they have increased his control of his material environment.
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cience has provided the swiftest communication between individuals; it has provided a record of ideas and has enabled man to manipulate and to make extracts from that record so that knowledge evolves and endures throughout the life of a race rather than that of an individual.
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There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends.
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Yet specialization becomes increasingly necessary for progress, and the effort to bridge between disciplines is correspondingly superficial.
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Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose
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Mendel's concept of the laws of genetics was lost to the world for a generation because his publication did not reach the few who were capable of grasping and extending it; and this sort of catastrophe is undoubtedly being repeated all about us, as truly significant attainments become lost in the mass of the inconsequential.
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The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships
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The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it.
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A record if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted. Today we make the record conventionally by writing and photography, followed by printing; but we also record on film, on wax disks, and on magnetic wires. Even if utterly new recording procedures do not appear, these present ones are certainly in the process of modification and extension.
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Mendel's concept of the laws of genetics was lost to the world for a generation because his publication did not reach the few who were capable of grasping and extending it;
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Howard RheingoldThe summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships."
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For years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind. Trip hammers that multiply the fists, microscopes that sharpen the eye, and engines of destruction and detection are new results, but not the end results, of modern science. Now, says Dr. Bush, instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages. The perfection of these pacific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge from their war work.
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There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends. The investigator is staggered by the findings and conclusions of thousands of other workers—conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, much less to remember, as they appear. Yet specialization becomes increasingly necessary for progress, and the effort to bridge between disciplines is correspondingly superficial.
Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose. If the aggregate time spent in writing scholarly works and in reading them could be evaluated, the ratio between these amounts of time might well be startling. Those who conscientiously attempt to keep abreast of current thought, even in restricted fields, by close and continuous reading might well shy away from an examination calculated to show how much of the previous month's efforts could be produced on call.
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The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
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The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut. It takes pictures 3 millimeters square, later to be projected or enlarged, which after all involves only a factor of 10 beyond present practice. The lens is of universal focus, down to any distance accommodated by the unaided eye, simply because it is of short focal length. There is a built-in photocell on the walnut such as we now have on at least one camera, which automatically adjusts exposure for a wide range of illumination. There is film in the walnut for a hundred exposures, and the spring for operating its shutter and shifting its film is wound once for all when the film clip is inserted. It produces its result in full color. It may well be stereoscopic, and record with two spaced glass eyes, for striking improvements in stereoscopic technique are just around the corner.
The cord which trips its shutter may reach down a man's sleeve within easy reach of his fingers. A quick squeeze, and the picture is taken. On a pair of ordinary glasses is a square of fine lines near the top of one lens, where it is out of the way of ordinary vision. When an object appears in that square, it is lined up for its picture. As the scientist of the future moves about the laboratory or the field, every time he looks at something worthy of the record, he trips the shutter and in it goes, without even an audible click. Is this all fantastic? The only fantastic thing about it is the idea of making as many pictures as would result from its use.
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Mercury Chaos"As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incen
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yellowbagReferenced by Mark Josephs on Bb
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making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge
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access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages.
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a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge
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swiftest communication between individuals
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growing mountain of research
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bogged down
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conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, much less to remember, as they appear
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he effort to bridge between disciplines is correspondingly superficial
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methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose
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truly significant attainments become lost in the mass of the inconsequential
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publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record
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there are plenty of mechanical aids with which to effect a transformation in scientific records.
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The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it.
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A record if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.
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There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends. The investigator is staggered by the findings and conclusions of thousands of other workers—conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, much less to remember, as they appear.
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methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate
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Mendel's concept of the laws of genetics was lost to the world for a generation because his publication did not reach the few who were capable of grasping and extending it; and this sort of catastrophe is undoubtedly being repeated all about us, as truly significant attainments become lost in the mass of the inconsequential.
The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.
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A record if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.
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Machines with interchangeable parts can now be constructed with great economy of effort. In spite of much complexity, they perform reliably. Witness the humble typewriter, or the movie camera, or the automobile. Electrical contacts have ceased to stick when thoroughly understood. Note the automatic telephone exchange, which has hundreds of thousands of such contacts, and yet is reliable. A spider web of metal, sealed in a thin glass container, a wire heated to brilliant glow, in short, the thermionic tube of radio sets, is made by the hundred million, tossed about in packages, plugged into sockets—and it works! Its gossamer parts, the precise location and alignment involved in its construction, would have occupied a master craftsman of the guild for months; now it is built for thirty cents. The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it.
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A record if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.
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Marcelo AkiraNow, says Dr. Bush, instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give
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Xaver InglinAs Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incent
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Mace OjalaA classic essay from 1945 proposing that after the war the human effort ought to be focused on making technology and science more accessible and knowledge more manageable.
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Naomi B1940s futurism invents the internet (memex)
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Thalles Waicherttodos artigos sobre hipertexto citam esse texto.
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Rafael AlvaradoThe Atlantic (July 1945)
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Julia Pellicciaroreading from Survey of Multimedia
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Joe LoongVannevar Bush's seminal and prescient envisioning of information sharing technologies presaging the modern Internet. As referenced by Tim Berners-Lee http://www.w3.org/Talks/9510_Bush/Talk.html
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Spencer Schaffnerarticle from 1945 predicting a personal computer revolution (of sorts)
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new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge
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Dan SchaefflerMendel's concept of the laws of genetics was lost to the world for a generation because his publication did not reach the few who were capable of grasping and extending it; and this sort of catastrophe is undoubtedly being repeated all about us, as truly
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paulofehI heard I should read this. For now, I'll just save it so I can find it later.
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pablodgzVannevar Bush
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This paper by Dr. Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge.
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our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose
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There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends. The investigator is staggered by the findings and conclusions of thousands of other workers—conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, much less to remember, as they appear. Yet specialization becomes increasingly necessary for progress, and the effort to bridge between disciplines is correspondingly superficial.
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Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose. If the aggregate time spent in writing scholarly works and in reading them could be evaluated, the ratio between these amounts of time might well be startling
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Mendel's concept of the laws of genetics was lost to the world for a generation because his publication did not reach the few who were capable of grasping and extending it; and this sort of catastrophe is undoubtedly being repeated all about us, as truly significant attainments become lost in the mass of the inconsequential
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The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
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Had a Pharaoh been given detailed and explicit designs of an automobile, and had he understood them completely, it would have taxed the resources of his kingdom to have fashioned the thousands of parts for a single car, and that car would have broken down on the first trip to Giza.
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The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it.
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A record if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.
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Christian Johansen"Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of
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