mercurious » lectures http://www.mercurious.com/wordpress A memex, a sketchpad of research. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:58:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Memex, The Dawn of Informatics http://www.mercurious.com/wordpress/2007/07/16/memex-the-dawn-of-informatics/ http://www.mercurious.com/wordpress/2007/07/16/memex-the-dawn-of-informatics/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:53:49 +0000 mercurious http://www.mercurious.com/wordpress/2007/07/16/memex-the-dawn-of-informatics/ “AS WE MAY THINK” BY DR. VANNEVAR BUSH Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly→, “As We May Think→” (July, 1945), a member of the Manhattan Project proposes the [tag]Memex[/tag]↔, a sort of microfilm-based knowledge desk. Many consider the Memex to be the pre-digital precursor to the idea of the Web and Internet as we know it today. It may reflect the dawn of the information age. Memex diagramDr. Vannevar Bush, creator of the MemexMemex camera diagram]]> “AS WE MAY THINK” BY DR. VANNEVAR BUSH

Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly→, “As We May Think→” (July, 1945), a member of the Manhattan Project proposes the [tag]Memex[/tag]↔, a sort of microfilm-based knowledge desk. Many consider the Memex to be the pre-digital precursor to the idea of the Web and Internet as we know it today. It may reflect the dawn of the information age.

Memex diagramDr. Vannevar Bush, creator of the MemexMemex camera diagram

I am constantly referring to the Memex in my [tag]lectures[/tag]↔ and research as a significant historical precedent to modern informatics, information design, hypertext and interactive media.

Computing Family TreeA diagram depicting “Computing’s Family Tree”◊ sources the Memex at the root of all modern operating systems. See also Dr. Ivan Sutherland’s [tag]Sketchpad[/tag]↔ for the world’s first interactive computer graphics system.

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Lecture: The Origins of Interactive Media ↑

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