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<p>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?"</p>
<p>I am quickly reading Smith, Googling about Otlet/Goldberg, and
running to our university library to get Burke's book.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/15/22 9:56 PM, Koblentz, Evan
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<div dir="ltr">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
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Evan Koblentz
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New Jersey Institute of Technology<br>
- Senior Writer, Office of Strategic Communications<br>
- Adjunct Instructor, Ying Wu College of Computing</p>
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