From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine

TitleFrom Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1991
Series EditorNyce, James M., Kahn, Paul
Number of Pages367 pp.
PublisherAcademic Press
CitySan Diego, CA
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780125232708
Annotation

Contents:
Vannevar Bush and the differential analyzer: the text and context of an early computer / Larry Owens
A machine for the mind : Vannevar Bush's memex / James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn
The inscrutable thirties ; Memorandum regarding memex; As we may think / Vannevar Bush
The idea of a machine: the later memex essays / Paul Kahn and James M. Nyce
A practical view of memex: the career of the rapid selector / Colin Burke
Memex II ; Science Pauses; Memex revisited; From "Of inventions and inventors" / Vannevar Bush
Letter to Vannevar Bush and program on human effectiveness / Douglas C. Engelbart
As we will think / Theodor H. Nelson
Memex as an image of potentiality revisited / Linda C. Smith
Hypertext -- does it reduce cholesterol, too? / Norman Meyrowitz
Memex : getting back on the trail / Tim Oren
Aristotle's library: memex as vision and hypertext as reality / Gregory Crane
From trailblazing to guided tours: the legacy of Vannevar Bush's vision of hypertext use / Randall H. Trigg

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