Vannevar Bush

Articles

• "Mechanization and the Record", Fortune, 1939. Contains the first published description of Memex. Later reworked into "As We May Think".
• "As We May Think", Atlantic Monthly 176 (July 1945), pp 101-108. Condensed version with illustrations reprinted in Life (10 Sep 1945), pp 112-124. Repr. in Endless Horizons, Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1946, pp 16-38. [1], TXT. A copy of the article with Douglas Engelbart's notes in the margins, [2].
  • "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. HTML.
  • "Cómo podríamos pensar", trans. Ernesto Arbeloa, Revista de Occidente 239 (March 2001). (in Spanish) [3]
  • "Tel que nous pourrions penser", trans. Ch. Monnatte. French translation of an excerpt.
  • "Como podemos pensar", trans. Marcelo Stoppa A. Corrêa, Furabolo.org, 2013. (in Portuguese)
• "Memex II", in From Memex to Hypertext, London: Academic Press, 1991. Manuscript draft dated August 1957.
• "Memex Revisited", in Science Is Not Enough, New York: William Morrow, 1967, pp 75-101; reprinted in From Memex to Hypertext, 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

• 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. (in Italian) [4]

On Bush

• Jerome B. Wiesner, Vannevar Bush, 1890-1974: A Biographical Memoir, Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1979.
• Richard Yeo, "Before Memex: Robert Hooke, John Locke, and Vannevar Bush on External Memory", Science in Context 20:1 (2007), pp 21-47.
• Belinda Barnet, "The Technical Evolution of Vannevar Bush’s Memex", Digital Humanities Quarterly 2:1 (2008).
• http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/bush.html

External links

• Memex animation, 1995.
• Video archive of 1995 MIT/Brown Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of As We May Think, [5], [6] [7]