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

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Year of Publication
1991
Author
Editor: Paul Kahn
Language
Number of Pages
367 pp.
Publisher
Academic Press
City
San Diego, CA
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ISBN
9780125232708
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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