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Memex is a hypothetical electromechanical device for interacting with microform documents and described in Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding ...
Still Building the Memex Stephen Davies, University of Mary Washington I. Motivation As World War II mercifully drew to a close, Vannevar Bush, President Truman’s Director of Scientific Research, surveyed the post-war landscape and laid out what he viewed as the most important forthcoming challenges to humankind.[9] In his oft-cited
The Memex and Beyond web site is a major research, educational, and collaborative web site integrating the historical record of and current research in hypermedia. The name honors the 1945 publication of Vannevar Bush's article "As We May Think" in which he proposed a hypertext engine called the Memex, and the web site is an outgrowth of the ...
Mar 11, 2018 · In computer science we know Vannevar Bush as the father of the Memex, an adjustable microfilm viewer with a structure analogous to that of the World Wide Web. “As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.”
Writers on hypertext trace the concept to a pioneering article by Vannevar Bush in a 1945 issue of Atlantic Monthly, that called for mechanically linked information-retrieval machines to help scholars and decision makers faced with what was already becoming an explosion of information.
This collection has appeal for historians for the same reason that Bush conceived of Memex during the 1930s: he required, as a researcher and writer, a simpler means of gathering, storing, and retrieving data.
A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility.
