This article is also the reading requirement in New Media History class. Bush’s prophecy about Memex and many technologies is very impressive. He predicted the invention of hypertext, the internet, computers, the WWW, and even the online search engine/Wikipedia: “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.” He also envisioned website functions such as website navigation/index, page comment section, and info search function.
Memex is a device where individuals can compress and store all the info, data, records and communications “mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility.” It has infinite storage and hyperlinks integrated within the text. And there is “a special button transfers him immediately to the first page of the index.”
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