The Memex

Read these three articles – the original by Vannevar Bush, my piece about his work and this piece from 2003 about Google. Compare and contrast Bush’s original vision with the world of blogging in 2003 and bring it up to today with tools like Medium, TikTok, Instagram or other collection and authoring tools.

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• The Invision and Invention of Blogging
  by Jonahtan Rabago
  In the article ‘As We May Think’ by Vannevar Bush, 1945, he talks about his career and innovations. One such innovation he imagined was the…
• Memex
  by Monica Xu
  The core of interaction design is the user, which is human-centered design. Interaction design connects people and products. The starting point of interaction design is…
• The future envisioned by Vannevar Bush and our network technology today
  by Betty Deng
  In the 1930s, Vannevar Bush conceived the information storage devices that people will have in the future. In As We May Think, he envisioned that…
• A new way of recording our lives?
  by Hermione Hu
  Let’s think about how important recording daily life, feelings and history are. Nearly all people around the world use some kind of tools such as…
• From the Prescient Vision in 1945 to Going Viral on “TikTok”
  by Ted Huang
  During World War II, many applications of human factors and cognitive science research techniques were being utilized to understand obstacles with soldiers and their use…
• Memex VS Digital Media
  by Mengyao Xiu
  In the article As we may think, Vannevar Bush first brought the issue about the idea of memory extender, a proto-hypertext system, normally known as…
• The Memex: From Concept to Reality
  by Philip Joo
  Vannevar Bush was a well-known engineer and scientist who played a huge role with the American government Since World War I.  He envisioned a device,…
• Bush’s original vision with the world of blogging and modern blogging tools like Medium, TikTok, Instagram, etc
  by Lylyna Heng
  First the similarity in the annotation, where Bush’s original vision was to help him in his research work and Google did the annotation with comments…
• #Vannevar Bush’s Vision
  by DeeDee Kwon
  The Memex, Vannevar Bush designed a hypothetical document-manipulation system that would permit him to be a better researcher, by managing the annotated links he established…
• On Information Distribution: Who Decides?
  by Elaine Choi
  In Vannevar Bush’s article “As We May Think“, he describes a conceptual machine called the “memex” that would allow its users to store, replicate, and…
• Vannevar Bush’s Vision
  by Ruth Bhavsar
  In the 1930s, a man named Vannevar Bush suggested a memory augmentation device which would allow the user to link multiple ideas together and encourage…
• El _ Memex Reflection
  by Elspeth Tordoff
  The Memex, designed by Vannevar Bush was the first way to “link” information through a machine. Bush envisioned a system where one could pull up…
• From Memex to Instagram
  by Vincent Chen
  Memex is the idea that first came out at “Mechanization and the Record” by Vannevar Bush. A few years later it is written down in…
• Extension of Ideas, Information, and the Mind
  by Noah Ahrens
  It is interesting to consider technology, particularly all the saved preferences and libraries we have collected in a sort of digital footprint. This concept of…
• The system knows you more than yourself
  by Zijie Zhou
  Vannevar Bush in his “As We May think” mentioned that: “A record if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it…
• Memex’s impact on the Internet recommendation system
  by Elena Wang
  Vannevar Bush published the famous “As We May Think” on The Atlantic Monthly in July 1945. In this article, he described an archiving and retrieval…
• Modern Memex: An Extension of User’s Brain
  by Jasmine Sun
  “A record if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.”This…
• Memex’s Role in Present Day Social Media
  by Evan Tang
  Memex, created by Vannevar Bush, was a proto-hypertext system described in his article “As We May Think.” It’s influence was taken for granted back then….
• It’s a Bird, it’s a Plane, No it’s.. an Authoring and Collecting tool?
  by Corey Rossi
  Vannevar Bush wanted a system, the Memex, that would unify a community of scholars to share information and knowledge. In “As We May Think” Bush…
• From Memex to today’s application
  by Peter Peng
  Memex is the idea that first came out at “Mechanization and the Record” by Vannevar Bush. Back in the 1930s, Vannevar Bush was ahead of…
• We Are Deciding Our Future
  by Rebecca Lin
  Vannevar Bush’s idea “The Memex” used to be a new, complicated, and unreliable way of memorization for people in the 1930’s, but time turned it…
• From memex to Tiktok
  by Anh Truong
  Vannevar Bush published an essay in The Atlantic Monthly “As We May Think” in 1945. As early as the 1930s he was already ahead of…
• Create your own database in Douyin（KikTOK）
  by Betty Li
  Van Neva Bush published a memory expansion program in 1945-MEMEX, which can display information stored on microfilm on a translucent screen. What he envisioned is…
• Idea From a True Pioneer
  by Brian Zhao
  In the year of 1945, Vannevar Bush envisioned a pre-hypertext system or a machine named Memex in his article, As We May Think. Even though…
• Vannevar Bush – Machine to Human Mind
  by Amanda Liu
  In Vannevar Bush’s essay “As We May Think” published in 1945, Bush depicted a hypothetical machine called the Memex. We can see many overlaps between Bush’s…
• Bush to Instagram
  by John Cho
  Bush claimed the web’s initial idea through memex, a machine recording collection of data, and the process of searching the data through examination. Bush also…
• Bush’s vision v.s. today
  by Tai Hao
  In 1945, Vannevar Bush described a computer system that is similar to the modern internet in an essay that was published in the Atlantic titled…