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[[Image:Bush_Vannevar_1945_Memex_2.jpg|thumb|350px|From "As We May Think", ''Life'', 1945.]]
 
'''Vannevar Bush''' (1890–1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator. He was the initiator of the Manhattan Project, and is also known in engineering for his work on analog computers, for founding Raytheon, and for the memex, an adjustable microfilm viewer with a structure analogous to that of the World Wide Web.
 
'''Vannevar Bush''' (1890–1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator. He was the initiator of the Manhattan Project, and is also known in engineering for his work on analog computers, for founding Raytheon, and for the memex, an adjustable microfilm viewer with a structure analogous to that of the World Wide Web.
  
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==Bush on memex==
 
* "Mechanization and the Record", ''Fortune'', 1939. Contains the first published description of the memex. Later reworked into "As We May Think".
 
* "Mechanization and the Record", ''Fortune'', 1939. Contains the first published description of the memex. Later reworked into "As We May Think".
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* [http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ "As We May Think"], ''Atlantic Monthly'' 176 (July 1945), pp 101-108. Condensed version with illustrations [http://totalrecallbook.com/storage/As%20We%20May%20Think%20Vannevar%20Bush%20450910.pdf reprinted in] ''Life'' (10 Sep 1945), pp 112-124. Repr. in ''Endless Horizons'', Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1946, pp 16-38. [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0001.101/--as-we-may-think-an-article-that-appeared-in-the-atlantic?rgn=main;view=fulltext;q1=vannevar], [http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush.txt TXT]. [http://dougengelbart.org/archives/artifacts/annotated-As-We-May-Think-withcredits.pdf A copy of the article with Douglas Engelbart's notes in the margins], [http://traction.tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog1564].
 
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** [http://homepages.uni-paderborn.de/winkler/bush_d.pdf "As We May Think"], trans. Regina Winter, ''form diskurs'' 1:2 (1997), pp 136-147. German translation of the parts 6-8, with commentary by Hartmut Winkler. [http://homepages.uni-paderborn.de/winkler/bush_d.html HTML].
 
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** [http://biblioweb.sindominio.net/pensamiento/vbush-es.html "Cómo podríamos pensar"], trans. Ernesto Arbeloa, ''Revista de Occidente'' 239 (March 2001). (in Spanish) [http://biblioweb.sindominio.net/pensamiento/vbush-es.pdf]
 
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** [http://www.archipress.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=101&Itemid=46 "Tel que nous pourrions penser"], trans. Ch. Monnatte. French translation of an excerpt.
 
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** [http://furabolo.org/como-podemos-pensar-de-vannevar-bush/ "Como podemos pensar"], trans. Marcelo Stoppa A. Corrêa, ''Furabolo.org'', 2013. (in Portuguese)
 
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* "Memex II", in ''[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/log/?p=11747 From Memex to Hypertext]'', London: Academic Press, 1991. Manuscript draft dated August 1957.
 
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* "Memex Revisited", in ''Science Is Not Enough'', New York: William Morrow, 1967, pp 75-101; [http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/~ben/references/bush_memex_revisited.pdf reprinted in] ''From Memex to Hypertext'', London: Academic Press, 1991, pp 197-216; [http://worrydream.com/refs/Bush%20-%20Memex%20Revisited.pdf repr. in] ''New Media, Old Media'', eds. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and ‎Thomas Keenan, Routledge, 2006, pp 85-95.
 
  
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*{{a|Bush1945}}[http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ "As We May Think"], ''Atlantic Monthly'' 176:1, Jul 1945, pp 101-108; [[Media:Bush Vannevar 1945 As We May Think Life.pdf|repr., abbr.]], ''Life'' 19:11, 10 Sep 1945, pp 112-124; repr. in ''Endless Horizons'', Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1946, pp 16-38. [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0001.101/--as-we-may-think-an-article-that-appeared-in-the-atlantic?rgn=main;view=fulltext;q1=vannevar], [http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush.txt TXT]. [http://dougengelbart.org/archives/artifacts/annotated-As-We-May-Think-withcredits.pdf A copy of the article with Douglas Engelbart's notes in the margins], [http://traction.tractionsoftware.com/traction/permalink/Blog1564].
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** [[Media:Bush_Vannevar 1945 1997 As We May Think.pdf|"As we may Think"]], trans. Regina Winter, comm. Hartmut Winkler, ''form diskurs'' 1:2, 1997, pp 136-147, [http://web.archive.org/web/20160312125208/http://homepages.uni-paderborn.de/winkler/bush_d.html HTML]. Trans. of the parts 6-8. {{en}}/{{de}}
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** [https://biblioweb.sindominio.net/pensamiento/vbush-es.html "Cómo podríamos pensar"], trans. Ernesto Arbeloa, ''Revista de Occidente'' 239, Mar 2001, [[Media:Bush Vannevar 1945 2001 Como podriamos pensar.pdf|PDF]]. {{es}}
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** [http://www.archipress.org/?page_id=295 "Tel que nous pourrions penser"], trans. Ch. Monnatte, n.d. Trans. of an excerpt. {{fr}}
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** [http://web.archive.org/web/20160407004539/http://furabolo.org/como-podemos-pensar-de-vannevar-bush/ "Como podemos pensar"], trans. Marcelo Stoppa A. Corrêa, ''Furabolo.org'', 2013. {{pt}}
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** [https://monoskop.org/images/6/66/Vasulkova_kuchynska_kniha_texty_k_mediim_2020.pdf#page=89 "Jak si lze myslet"], trans. Dan Hrabina, in ''[https://monoskop.org/log/?p=22620 Vasulka Kitchen Cooking Reader #1: Beyond Media Texts: Primal & Final / Vašulkova kuchyňská kniha #1: texty k médiím: první & poslední]'', ed. Miloš Vojtěchovský, Brno: Vašulka Kitchen Brno, 2020, pp 177-193. {{cz}}
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* "Memex II", in ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11747 From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind’s Machine]'', eds. James Nyce and Paul Kahn, London: Academic Press, 1991. Manuscript draft dated August 1957.
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* "Memex Revisited", in ''Science Is Not Enough'', New York: William Morrow, 1967, pp 75-101; [http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/~ben/references/bush_memex_revisited.pdf repr. in] ''From Memex to Hypertext: From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind’s Machine'', eds. James Nyce and Paul Kahn, London: Academic Press, 1991, pp 197-216; [http://worrydream.com/refs/Bush%20-%20Memex%20Revisited.pdf repr. in] ''New Media, Old Media'', eds. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and ‎Thomas Keenan, Routledge, 2006, pp 85-95.
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==Collected writings==
 
* ''Endless Horizons'', Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1946. Collection of papers and addresses.
 
* ''Endless Horizons'', Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1946. Collection of papers and addresses.
 
* ''Science Is Not Enough'', New York: William Morrow, 1967, 192 pp.
 
* ''Science Is Not Enough'', New York: William Morrow, 1967, 192 pp.
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* James Nyce, Paul Kahn (eds.), ''[http://{{SERVERNAME}}/log/?p=11747 From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine]'', London: Academic Press, 1991.
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* James Nyce, Paul Kahn (eds.), ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11747 From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine]'', London: Academic Press, 1991.
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** ''Da Memex a hypertext: Vannevar Bush e la Macchina della Mente'', Padova: Franco Muzzio, 1992, 270 pp. (in Italian) [http://www.scribd.com/doc/221472399]
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** ''Da Memex a hypertext: Vannevar Bush e la Macchina della Mente'', Padova: Franco Muzzio, 1992, 270 pp. {{it}} [http://www.scribd.com/doc/221472399]
  
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==On Bush and memex==
 
* Jerome B. Wiesner, ''[http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/bush-vannevar.pdf Vannevar Bush, 1890-1974: A Biographical Memoir]'', Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1979.
 
* Jerome B. Wiesner, ''[http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/bush-vannevar.pdf Vannevar Bush, 1890-1974: A Biographical Memoir]'', Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1979.
 
* G. Pascal Zachary, ''Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century'', MIT Press, 1999, 528 pp. [http://www.gpascalzachary.com/endless_frontier__vannevar_bush__engineer_of_the_american_century_50100.htm]
 
* G. Pascal Zachary, ''Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century'', MIT Press, 1999, 528 pp. [http://www.gpascalzachary.com/endless_frontier__vannevar_bush__engineer_of_the_american_century_50100.htm]
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* [http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/bush.html "Internet Pioneers: Vannevar Bush"], undated.
 
* [http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/bush.html "Internet Pioneers: Vannevar Bush"], undated.
  
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==See also==
 
* [[Douglas Engelbart]]
 
* [[Douglas Engelbart]]
 
* [[Ted Nelson]]
 
* [[Ted Nelson]]
  
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==Links==
 
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c539cK58ees Memex animation], 1995.
 
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c539cK58ees Memex animation], 1995.
 
* [http://www.dougengelbart.org/events/vannevar-bush-symposium.html Video archive of 1995 MIT/Brown Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of As We May Think], [http://cs.brown.edu/~rms/50YearsAfter.pdf], [http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/html/info/vannevar_bush.html] [http://web.archive.org/web/20080331025911/http://www.eecs.mit.edu/AY95-96/events/bush/]
 
* [http://www.dougengelbart.org/events/vannevar-bush-symposium.html Video archive of 1995 MIT/Brown Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of As We May Think], [http://cs.brown.edu/~rms/50YearsAfter.pdf], [http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/html/info/vannevar_bush.html] [http://web.archive.org/web/20080331025911/http://www.eecs.mit.edu/AY95-96/events/bush/]

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Vannevar Bush, c1944.
From "As We May Think", Life, 1945.
From "As We May Think", Life, 1945.

Vannevar Bush (1890–1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator. He was the initiator of the Manhattan Project, and is also known in engineering for his work on analog computers, for founding Raytheon, and for the memex, an adjustable microfilm viewer with a structure analogous to that of the World Wide Web.

Bush on memex[edit]

  • "Mechanization and the Record", Fortune, 1939. Contains the first published description of the memex. Later reworked into "As We May Think".
  • "Memex Revisited", in Science Is Not Enough, New York: William Morrow, 1967, pp 75-101; repr. in From Memex to Hypertext: From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind’s Machine, eds. James Nyce and Paul Kahn, London: Academic Press, 1991, pp 197-216; repr. in New Media, Old Media, eds. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and ‎Thomas Keenan, Routledge, 2006, pp 85-95.

Collected writings[edit]

  • Endless Horizons, Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1946. Collection of papers and addresses.
  • Science Is Not Enough, New York: William Morrow, 1967, 192 pp.
  • James Nyce, Paul Kahn (eds.), From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine, London: Academic Press, 1991.
    • Da Memex a hypertext: Vannevar Bush e la Macchina della Mente, Padova: Franco Muzzio, 1992, 270 pp. (Italian) [3]

On Bush and memex[edit]

See also[edit]

Links[edit]

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