As We May Think

Thanks to Paul for telling me the amazing story of Vannevar Bush and his piece As We May Think.

"A proto-hypertext system

In Bush's 1945 paper, he describes a memex as an electromechanical device that an individual could use to read a large self-contained research library, and add or follow associative trails of links and notes created by that individual, or recorded by other researchers."

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"Preparing Us For AR": the value of illustrating of future technologies

From Tom Armitage, "the ways that design and media can educate us about what future technologies might be like, or prepare us for large paradigm shifts. What sort of products really are “preparing” us for Augmented Reality?"

http://berglondon.com/blog/2009/07/30/preparing-us-for-ar-the-value-of-illustrating-of-future-technologies/

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