[SIGCIS-Members] What inspired Bush's Memex?
Evan Koblentz
evank at njit.edu
Wed Nov 16 10:10:03 PST 2022
Oops - I should have opened your link before sharing my own article. I
wasn't aware that Turoff even knew about Bush/Memex, let alone that he
wrote about it, in the context of EIES. Shame on me, for not seeing the
connection!
On 11/16/22 1:04 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
>
> I knew Murray and interviewed him a few years ago:
>
> https://news.njit.edu/njit-research-1970s-became-vital-parts-todays-social-media-recipe
>
> Sadly, he passed away last month, but most if not all of his work is
> archived on NJIT websites.
>
>
>
> On 11/16/22 12:49 PM, LO*OP CENTER, INC. wrote:
>> Hi Evan,
>>
>> I assume you've been in touch with Murray Turroff. Here's one of his
>> papers just in case you don't have it.
>> http://www.loopcntr.net/repository/1016.pdf. I have several others in
>> the History of Computing in Learning and Education archive. Check out
>> hcle.org <http://hcle.org> for a small sample of the documents I'm
>> trying to scan and make accessible.
>>
>> By the way, there's no way I can finish the HCLE project by myself in
>> the time I have left on this earth. If any of you readers are
>> interested in researching and documenting how computing and education
>> have intersected between 1960 and 1990, please contact me. I have at
>> least 50 potential dissertations sitting in storage.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Liza
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 8:36 AM Evan Koblentz via Members
>> <members at lists.sigcis.org> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks everyone for the great suggestions! Tonight I'm teaching
>> my students about the origins of graphical interfaces, and
>> realized that I didn't have a good answer ready to the question
>> of, "But what inspired Bush?"
>>
>> I am quickly reading Smith, Googling about Otlet/Goldberg, and
>> running to our university library to get Burke's book.
>>
>>
>> On 11/15/22 9:56 PM, Koblentz, Evan wrote:
>>> Does anyone have documentation, or good theories, about
>>> how/where Vannevar Bush was inspired to develop his ideas for
>>> the speculative Memex? I know that he was privy to the latest
>>> computer developments, but how did he make the jump from
>>> plugboards and punch cards to a virtual encyclopedia and hypertext?
>> --
>> Evan Koblentz
>>
>> New Jersey Institute of Technology
>> - Senior Writer, Office of Strategic Communications
>> - Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing
>>
>> evank at njit.edu
>> (973) 596-3065
>> https://web.njit.edu/~evank
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>>
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>> --
>> Liza Loop
>> Executive Director, LO*OP Center, Inc.
>> Guerneville, CA 95446
>> www.loopcenter.org <http://www.loopcenter.org>
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>>
> --
> Evan Koblentz
>
> New Jersey Institute of Technology
> - Senior Writer, Office of Strategic Communications
> - Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing
>
> evank at njit.edu
> (973) 596-3065
> https://web.njit.edu/~evank
> @TechnicallyEvan <https://twitter.com/technicallyevan>
>
--
Evan Koblentz
New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Senior Writer, Office of Strategic Communications
- Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing
evank at njit.edu
(973) 596-3065
https://web.njit.edu/~evank
@TechnicallyEvan <https://twitter.com/technicallyevan>
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