FLM&MDA 85C Study Guide - Final Guide: Paul Otlet, Vannevar Bush, Memex
11 Feb 2019
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Nothing is as important as the original inspiration. Desk set: the challenge of the electronic brain. Machines that will cross reference and associate things. 1947 was a crucial year for the very first generation of commercial computers. Spencer tracy: premonition of machines replacing people. Bunny watson: loosely based on real person dorothy boyle of research department at. It was a very successful play in london first. You can associate many things with many things. From memex to www notes on the archeology of multimedia. All collections are property of the nation. Many commentators place vannevar bush"s speculations about a memory extender or memex at the imaginative source of hypertext. But there are also other forefathers of the web: paul otlet and hg wells. Features of otlet"s vision: a scholar"s workstation, a hypermedia memex, multi media substitutes for the book, universal network for documentation, a kind of internet.
