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@barking 🧵As We May Not Think
Very enjoyable, and great live use of #aswemaythink trail tech!
I smiled at your note on Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort’s ‘New Media Reader’. It’s still a great read and has scholarly glosses — and sometimes full text — of original sources.
https://www.newmediareader.com/about.html
The NMR Book Samples page includes a free link to the excellent chapter on Ted Nelson’s ‘Computer Lib / Dream Machines’.
https://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-21-nelson.pdf
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@dpiponi On the other hand, “As we may think” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think) is from 1945. There was something in the air at that time!
I would think that the war and the technological progress caused by it (including the atom bomb) let some people develop an extreme techno-optimism.
And Arthur C. Clarke's idea of using geostationary satellites for telecommunication (https://www.wired.com/2011/05/0525arthur-c-clarke-proposes-geostationary-satellites) is also from 1945!
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modular publishing a la @ResearchEquals came to mind as I re-read “As We May Think” closely. R= paths/journeys (do they have a “canonical” name?) are not quite memex trails, but they seem to be kindred spirits.
Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think”, The Atlantic, July 1945. <https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archives/1945/07/176-1/132407932.pdf>