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As We May Think (by Vannevar Bush, 1945)
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3020e6ba-a168-4327-ada5-571b746bd4ec/4000C084-8006-423C-AFCC-CA0F055776F9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/194507/bush" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/194507/bush" style="font-size: 11px;">www.theatlantic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/194507/bush"><H1>As We May Think</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/194507/bush"><DIV id="storytop"> <SPAN id="storytype"> </SPAN> <SPAN id="timestamp">July 1945 Atlantic Monthly</SPAN> <P id="byline"> by <SPAN class="hankpym">V</SPAN>annevar <SPAN class="hankpym">B</SPAN>ush </p> </DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=As_We_May_Think&oldid=222067547" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=As_We_May_Think&oldid=222067547" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=As_We_May_Think&oldid=222067547"><P><I><B>As We May Think</B></I> is an essay by <A title="Vannevar Bush" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush">Vannevar Bush</A>, first published in <I><A title="The Atlantic Monthly" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlantic_Monthly">The Atlantic Monthly</A></I> in July 1945. Bush argued that as humans turned from war, scientific efforts should shift from increasing physical abilities to making all previous collected <A title="Human" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human">human</A> <A title="Knowledge" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge">knowledge</A> more accessible.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=As_We_May_Think&oldid=222067547"><P><I>As We May Think</I> predicted many kinds of technology invented after its publication, including <A title="Hypertext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext">hypertext</A>, <A title="Personal computers" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computers">personal computers</A>, the <A title="Internet" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet">Internet</A>, the <A title="World Wide Web" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web">World Wide Web</A>, <A title="Speech recognition" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition">speech recognition</A>, and <A title="Online encyclopedia" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_encyclopedia">online encyclopedias</A> such as <A title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia">Wikipedia</A>: "Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=As_We_May_Think&oldid=222067547">The system, which he called <A title="Memex" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex">memex</A>, was described as based on what was thought, at the time, to be the wave of the future: Ultra high resolution <A title="Microfilm" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfilm">microfilm</A> reels, coupled to multiple screen viewers and cameras, by electromechanical controls.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4000C084-8006-423C-AFCC-CA0F055776F9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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