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	Vannevar Bush
		Yet many consider Bush to be the Godfather of our wired age often making reference to his 1945 essay, "As We May Think." In his article, Bush described a theoretical machine he called a "memex," which was to enhance human memory by allowing the user to store and retrieve documents linked by associations.
		So it may have been partly that, and partly my association with my grandfather, who was a whaling skipper.
		His main purpose in writing the article was to influence "thinking regarding science in the modern world" and to "emphasize the opportunity for the application of science in a field which is largely neglected by science" (Bush in Nyce & Kahn, 81).
	www.ibiblio.org /pioneers/bush.html (2063 words)

	The Curious Mind \| Articles / As We May Think
		There may be millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based, all encased within stone walls of acceptable architectural form; but if the scholar can get at only one a week by diligent search, his syntheses are not likely to keep up with the current scene.
		In order that the picture may not be too commonplace, by reason of sticking to present-day patterns, it may be well to mention one such possibility, not to prophesy but merely to suggest, for prophecy based on extension of the known has substance, while prophecy founded on the unknown is only a doubly involved guess.
		His excursion may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the manifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand, with some assurance that he can find them again if they prove important.
	www.zafar.se /bkz/Articles/AsWeMayThink (7749 words)

	As We May Think
		There may be millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based, all encased within stone walls of acceptable architectural form; but if the scholar can get at only one a week by diligent search, his syntheses are not likely to keep up with the current scene.
		In order that the picture may not be too commonplace, by reason of sticking to present-day patterns, it may be well to mention one such possibility, not to prophesy but merely to suggest, for prophecy based on extension of the known has substance, while prophecy founded on the unknown is only a doubly involved guess.
		His excursion may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the manifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand, with some assurance that he can find them again if they prove important.
	www.facom.ufba.br /hipertexto/think.html (7749 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: As We May Think
		There may be millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based, all encased within stone walls of acceptable architectural form; but if the scholar can get at only one a week by diligent search, his syntheses are not likely to keep up with the current scene.
		In order that the picture may not be too commonplace, by reason of sticking to present-day patterns, it may be well to mention one such possibility, not to prophesy but merely to suggest, for prophecy based on extension of the known has substance, while prophecy founded on the unknown is only a doubly involved guess.
		His excursions may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the manifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand, with some assurance that he can find them again if they prove important.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/AS_WE_MAY_THINK.html (7687 words)

	"Bush Symposium - ACM Interactions Article"
		It is not intended to be an exhaustive review of the speeches and panels, but rather to convey the intense intellectual and emotional quality of what was a most extraordinary event, one that was self-referential in ways unanticipated by the planners.
		They also represent the major topics of "As We May Think": augmentation of human sensory and mental capabilities; information structuring, retrieval and transmission; and the synergistic interplay of technology and human enterprise.
		It seems that we are not too jaded, skeptical, or post-modern to believe, 50 years later, that technology can bring us 'a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge', one that will promote 'the application of science to the needs and desires of man' ('As We May Think').
	www.cs.brown.edu /memex/Bush_Symposium_Interact.html (742 words)

	Vannevar Bush: As we may think.
		He speculates that it may be necessary to develop a universal language - 'a new symbolism, probably positional' - and distinguishes within intellectual thought between 'creative' and 'repetitive thought'.
		One cannot hope thus to equal the speed and flexibility with which the mind follows an associative trail, but it should be possible to beat the mind decisively in regard to the permanence and clarity of the items resurrected from storage.
		His excursions may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the mainifold things he does not need to have immediately at hand, with some assurance that he can firm them again if they prove important.
	wwwcs.uni-paderborn.de /~winkler/bush_e.html (3257 words)

	Vannevar Bush - “As We May Think” - The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945
		Man cannot hope fully to duplicate this mental process artificially, but he certainly ought to be able to learn from it.
		One cannot hope thus to equal the speed and flexibility with which the mind follows an associative trail, but it should be possible to beat the mind decisively in regard to the permanence and clarity of the items resurrected from storage.
		So he sets a reproducer in action, photographs the whole trail out, and passes it to his friend for insertion in his own memex, there to be linked into the more general trail.
	www.muohio.edu /technologyandhumanities/bushawmt.htm (519 words)

	AS WE MAY THINK
		There is film in the walnut for a hundred exposures, and the spring for operating its shutter and shifting its film is wound once for all when the film clip is inserted.
		In fact, every time one combines and records facts in accordance with established logical processes, the creative aspect of thinking is concerned only with the selection of the data and the process to be employed, and the manipulation thereafter is repetitive in nature and hence a fit matter to be relegated to the machines.
		It might be striking to outline the instrumentalities of the future more spectacularly, rather than to stick closely to the methods and elements now known and undergoing rapid development, as has been done here.
	www.unc.edu /depts/jomc/academics/dri/98-99/vannevar.html (4339 words)

	Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think" (1945)
		It may well be stereoscopic, and record with spaced glass eyes, for striking improvements in stereoscopic technique are just around the corner.
		In fact, every time one combines and records facts in accordance with established logical processes, the creative aspect of thinking is concerned only with the selection of the data and the process to be employed, and the manipulation thereafter is repetitive in nature and hence a fit matter to be relegated to the machines.
		Is it not possible that we may learn to introduce them without the present cumbersomeness of first transforming electrical vibrations to mechanical ones, which the human mechanism promptly transforms back to the electrical form?
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/jod/texts/vannevar.bush.html (7749 words)

	UnRev-II - headers sorted: Re: [unrev-II] "As We May Think
		Re the info overload part of John's post, about four decades ago serious thought was given to the trend toward the immense amount of leasure time people would soon have on their hands.
		That thinking came about through labor contracts being negotiated and won that specified ever shorter work weeks and greater social benefits, especially by Reuter for the auto workers.
		And from all of this it seems to me that the real, but unstated objective of Bush's "How we may think" and of Doug's augmenting the collective IQ is for the benign fruits to outpace and subdue the malign fruits born from our knowledge explosion.
	www.bootstrap.org /dkr/discussion/2803.html (799 words)

	as we may think
		Not so much has been done along these lines,beyond the bounds of arithmetic, as might be done, primarily because of the economics of the situation.
		With tube selection, in which no mechanical parts are involved in the switches, little time need be occupied in bringing the correct card into use -- a second should suffice for the entire operation.
		All our steps in creating or absorbing material of the record proceed through one of the senses -- the tactile when we touch keys, the oral when we speak or listen, the visual when we read.
	www.thocp.net /biographies/papers/aswemaythink.htm (7635 words)

	As We May Think
		This visionary essay, published in 1945, is a reminder that science and technology can and should be pursued as a means for peaceful and beneficial ends, not only warfare.
		There is film in the walnut for a hundred exposures, and the spring for operating its shutter and shifting its film is wound once for all when the film clip is inserted.
		In fact, every time one combines and records facts in accordance with established logical processes, the creative aspect of thinking is concerned only with the selection of the data and the process to be employed and the manipulation thereafter is repetitive in nature and hence a fit matter to be relegated to the machine.
	www.kurzweilai.net /articles/art0333.html?m=7 (7983 words)

	apophenia: as we may think
		I'm re-reading "As We May Think" with a careful eye in preparation for exams and this time, a quote stuck with me that i think is really important given some conversations i've been having lately: His excursions may be more enjoyable if he can reacquire the privilege of forgetting the...
		I'm re-reading "As We May Think" with a careful eye in preparation for exams and this time, a quote stuck with me that i think is really important given some conversations i've been having lately:
		I think the trick is to put little markers in your memory so you can get back.
	www.zephoria.org /thoughts/archives/2003/11/28/as_we_may_think.html (627 words)

	As we may think
		As We May Think was written by Vannevar Bush before computers existed, and most of his ideas of what the future would look like are easily realizable nowadays with them, we have advanced even further technologically than Vannevar would had ever imagine, however, conceptually we still lapse behind.
		The memex, probably the most interesting out of Bush’s visions of future machines and central to this writing, approaches what a personal computer has become to be in astonishing ways.
		I think more than ever we must think about Vannevar Bush’s call to a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge.
	a.parsons.edu /~carlos/major/think.html (220 words)

	Bush.doc
		Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge.
		It may well be stereoscopic, and record with spaced glass eyes, for striking improvements in stereoscopic technique are just around the corner.
		Not so much has been done along these lines, beyond the bounds of arithmetic, as might be done, primarily because of the economics of the situation.
	sloan.stanford.edu /mousesite/Secondary/Bush.html (7731 words)

	d2r: rethinking the Internet, part one: "as we may think"
		Nelson's ideas didn't beyond prototype stage, and Engelbart's and his team's work had to wait until they were revisited (in many cases by the same people) at Xerox PARC and through it exposed to the wider world via Apple and then Microsoft.
		Both Nelson and Engelbart were influenced by Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think".
		Out of view, but also in the code space, is inserted a set of dots for photocell viewing; and on each item these dots by their positions designate the index number of the other item.
	www.dynamicobjects.com /d2r/archives/002438.html (1772 words)

	Open Course Collaboratories - wikipage (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For the latter there are, and may be, powerful mechanical aids." Vannevar Bush, from "As We May Think" 1945
		With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain.
		It has other characteristics, of course; trails that are not frequently followed are prone to fade, items are not fully permanent, memory is transitory.
	opencourse.org /Collaboratories/hyperscope/hyperscope-wiki/VannevarBushQuotes/wikipage_view (578 words)

	As We May Think - Vannevar Bush (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bush tells a masterful story of technology's state of the art in 1945 and of taking its trends to their logical conclusion, revealing how his vision was both guided by and limited by that technology.
		This document shall explore and summarize Bush the man, the contributions and limitations of his paper ``As We May Think,'' and our class discussion thereof.
		We begin with a biography of Bush and a discussion of his vision for organizing the human record.
	www.cs.berkeley.edu /~eylon/cs294-classics/bush-lecture/bush-as-we-may-think.html (229 words)

	As We May Think \| disobey.com
		My first child, Julia, was born May 16th, 2006.
		Been reading a 1945 paper called As We May Think by Vannevar Bush:
		Besides the gleeful realizations that much of what he's said has come true (gleeful as in the sense of "stuff that we write about today will be commonplace and obvious to the future" which is a common fact, but still excites me nonetheless), I found this paragraph particularly striking:
	www.disobey.com /node/1391 (360 words)

	Epa’s blog place » "As We May Think"
		After reading the article, I was very impressed that some of the predictions or ideas that Vannevar Bush had in 1945, are in use now.
		In “As We May Think”, the idea seems to be for “individual use” and it sounded to me that it was mainly for storage and retrieval of needed information especially from the library.
		Richard asks us question that I think is very important.
	schoolof.info /epuwi/?cat=3 (279 words)

	Information Literacy...As we may think « Feed My Pet Brain
		modified principles of classification, mutual exclusivity may be impossible in practice, completeness may be sacrificed for expense (or usability?).
		Bush describes the human mind operating by association of thoughts, reminding me of great discussions of brain ‘operation’ in Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near and On Intelligence, Hawkins. In particular I liked Kurzweil’s description of memory-fade, in these notes: p.172 “Say [you use] 1000 connections to store a piece of information.
		This is possible today, surely. And projects like Google Books are pushing us along. Sort of. Vinge’s Rainbows Enddescribes another sort of library project by which books are sucked up directly from the library stacks, shredded, and photographed in shred-mode, where later the digital books are reassembled from the individual shredded images.
	futhermet.wordpress.com /2007/01/12/information-literacyas-we-may-think (833 words)

	Web Lecture: "As We May Think" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The new technological devices can be put to work to that end.
		``Memex'' - 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.
		a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~bakardji/web_lecture.html/aswemay.html (117 words)

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	www.thinkwebsitedesign.co.uk (189 words)

	Old Media "Gets It" Better Than You May Think \| PodTech.net: Technology and Entertainment Video Network
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	www.podtech.net /home/technology/1477/old-media-gets-it-better-than-you-may-think (278 words)

	Think Secret - Apple Mac Insider News
		November 14 - Office 2008 may offer a wealth of new features, not the least of which is Intel native code, but those looking for more impressive features will have to look elsewhere than Entourage, which stands alone as the sole Mac-only component of Office.
		Now, nearly one year later, it appears the rental tip that Think Secret sources first declared true eleven months ago may finally come into fruition.
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	www.thinksecret.com (567 words)

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	Outsource Your Intranet? It Makes More Sense Than You May Think
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