Memex Demo [Transcription of Video]

Kahn: The Memex demonstration allows the user to listen to recreation of the "Turkish Bow Scenario" and explore the Memex described in Bush's article. Jim Nyce, who worked on the book with Kahn, made the very succinct point that ... "The Memex, while it was never built, was foremost speculative and immaginative engineering which has clearly inspired many of us." The animation was created largely by Ian Adelman, a student at the time at Rhode Island School of Design, and then employed at Microsoft Corporation out in Redmond.

Credits:

Memex: From Vannevar Bush's Essay "As We May Think"
Developed in the summer and fall of 1995 by Ian Adelman and Paul Kahn for
"As We May Think" -- A Celebration of Vannevar Bush's Vision
Symposim held at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, October 12-13, 1995
Andries van Dam, Brown University, Program Chair; Paul Penfield, Jr., MIT Host
Version 1.1 is available at the Dynamic Diagrams WWW site to be downloaded from the WWW.

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