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Memex
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Bush’s visionThinking in trails
Bush's Memex is a proposed personal library for books, records and communications. Introduced in As We May Think, it lets readers connect records and revisit those connections through associative trails.
- — Connect records by association
- — Reuse the same record in different trails
- — Share a path for others to explore
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Memex and Vannevar Bush
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