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Vannevar Bush - "As We May Think" (1945)

It has been quite some time that I had postponed a reading of this article. Even after being aware of the repeated references and a plethora of adjectives associated with it, I had been delaying it at my own leisurely pace. And now that I have read it, it feels almost like an epiphany. It is awe-inspiring in every aspect - the sheer foresight of Vannevar Bush, his suggested implementations and his proposed foundation for the way we might be able to record and access information. He pens his thoughts so vividly that you sometimes feel like he had access to a time capsule.


Alongside, he mentions of "Memex", an intelligent device of the future which would allow us to access all human knowledge. It has striking similarity to some of the computers of today - a Ninetendo DS seems a distant hand-held representation - but much of its suggested features are yet to be completely realised.

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