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Vannevar Bush's ideas about information organization and consumption in the future were eerily accurate. Reading about the history of Memex and the roots of the
by killerbat00 14y ago
Vannevar Bush's ideas about information organization and consumption in the future were eerily accurate. Reading about the history of Memex and the roots of the Information Architecture field in general is something I highly recommend for anyone interested in Information Science, etc.
- JumpCrisscross 14y agoRecommended book(s)?
- andrewcooke 14y agobush is mentioned in mirowski's "machine dreams", and it's not very complementary. that book is one of my favourites, but it's a post-modern, opinionated, soft-science (he's a history / philosophy / economics guy) take on post-war economics (and a whole pile of surrounding subjects). i suspect most people will hate the book as much as i love it, but you might be interested (perhaps you can find a library copy to check out....)
- killerbat00 14y agoYou can read Bush's original paper, As We May Think (where he presents the Memex) here: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma... Here is a database of his papers: http://findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=loc.mss.eadmss.ms998004&_faSection=overview&_faSubsection=eadheader&_dmdid=d28221e2 http://findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=...