As We May Think
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ [www.theatlantic.com]
2017-11-10 05:38
July 1945.
Now, says Dr. Bush, instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages. The perfection of these pacific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge from their war work. Like Emerson’s famous address of 1837 on “The American Scholar,” this paper by Dr. Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge.
Introducing the memex.