Talk:As We May Think

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``a Life magazine article which showed illustrations of the proposed memex desk and automatic typewriter. reminds me of the retro / art deco "computers" used by the reporters of the Daily Planet in the Superman comics.

Perhaps we should put the following quote from "As We May Think" in the article, suggesting that Bush predicted hypertext encyclopedias, such as Wikipedia, 55 years before it appeared?

"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.""

Nyh 07:34, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

I have corrected the date of the Life Magazine article - it is clearly the September 10th issue, and I can find numerous specific references to that ([1] [2]) whereas I cannot find any specific account of it appearing in any of the four November issues of Life - merely the vaguely repeated (and possibly originally ours) claim that it appeared in November. Phil Sandifer (talk) 16:53, 30 May 2008 (UTC)