We stand on the shoulders of giants

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: rvh40 () insightbb com
> Date: October 29, 2018 9:51:13 JST
> To: David Farber <farber () gmail com>
> Subject: We stand on the shoulders of giants
>
> David Brin
> 37 mins · 
> Anyone seeking to understand the brilliant, early conceptualists who foresaw some of our era’s wonders should be 
> familiar with names like J.D. Bernal and John Von Neumann and Alan Turing. And especially Vannevar Bush, whose essay 
> “As we may think” shortly after WWII squinted at a future when all people might have access to most of the world’s 
> information. Now a group has brought Bush’s proposed “Memex” system to life and the video is very interesting. Though 
> it would have been good to have it explained that the sound effects were meant to mimic what Bush expected, which was 
> physically accessing microfilms and mico-fiches.
> See Vannevar Bush’s original Memex article.  (1945)
>
> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/?fbclid=IwAR1K0gsCOjkEfK_UXrUN8orjC3hz0oyDjFaitFkpnY1xtRoOY04osirsZ0U



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