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    Memex [memory expansion] is a hypothetical electromechanical device for interacting with microform documents and described in Vannevar Bush's 1945 article...
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    particularly for his engineering work on analog computers, and for the memex. Starting in 1927, Bush constructed a differential analyzer, a mechanical...
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  • essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing. All of the documents used in the memex would be in the form...
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  • of the "Memex program", which aims at developing new search technologies overcoming some limitations of text-based search. DARPA wants the Memex technology...
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    We May Think", about a futuristic proto-hypertext device he called a Memex. A Memex would hypothetically store — and record — content on reels of microfilm...
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    desire for a sort of collective memory machine with his concept of the memex that would make knowledge more accessible, believing that it would help...
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    Monthly called "As We May Think", about a futuristic device he called a Memex. He described the device as an electromechanical desk linked to an extensive...
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  • in The Atlantic Monthly magazine under the title "As We May Think." The Memex article in The Atlantic is most often cited because of its longer text which...
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  • and lack of investment. Charles S. Smith, the founder of a company called Memex (named after a hypertext system proposed by Vannevar Bush), hired many of...
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    Vannevar Bush. In the essay, Bush described a microfilm-based machine (the Memex) in which one could link any two pages of information into a "trail" of...
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