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The other Memex: The tangled career of Vannevar Bush's Information Machine, The Rapid Selector

1992; Wiley; Volume: 43; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199212)43

1097-4571

Colin Burke,

History of Computing Technologies

Vannevar Bush had much less to do with modern information science and technology than has been thought. The histories of the two machines that were the closest Bush came to turning his famed Memex ideas into hardware, the Comparator and the Rapid Selector, dictate a reevaluation of Bush's direct influence. His 1930s attempts to build a device for America's codebreakers and to create a machine for the library of the future were less than successful. The story of the difficulties of the decades-long projects help to place Bush and Memex in an historical context. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.