[SIGCIS-Members] What inspired Bush's Memex?

[Evan Koblentz]

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
>>     @TechnicallyEvan <https://twitter.com/technicallyevan>
>>
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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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