[HN Gopher] "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush (1945)
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       "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush (1945)
        
       Author : joebig
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2024-09-23 17:27 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | mikewarot wrote:
       | He was right that curation and distribution of knowledge was the
       | most important problem at the time. A Memex solved both by
       | recording everything that was seen, with context, AND allowing a
       | dump/copy of a portion or all of that data to me made on demand.
       | 
       | It's deeply upsetting that we've never had a widely used
       | implementation of the Memex in the past, and now thanks to DRM,
       | "IP" and copyright, we never will.
        
         | IOT_Apprentice wrote:
         | Doug Englebart built upon it and gave the mothe of all demos.
         | Watch it on YouTube. It took decades for the software industry
         | to finally take much of his ideas.
         | 
         | Programming is a Balkanized state of NIH, ego and general
         | ignorance of the past. The work at Xerox Park Place, Bell Labs,
         | SRI were revolutionary. And ignored by the "mainstream".
         | 
         | It is really sad.
        
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