Cyberpunk Came Early
Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, "memex" will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.
-Vannevar Bush, Atlantic Monthly, July 1945
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Was this guy (gal?) seen as a lunatic in his time? Maybe so, because we have yet to find a way to determine which predictions make sense and which don't...
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July 15, 2005 04:56 AM
Well, Dr. Vannevar Bush (who was a man) was the director of the Pentagon's Office of Scientific Research and Development. Hardly a fringe dreamer.
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July 16, 2005 03:42 PM