eun ji won

this week’s main reading is Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think,”
who was vannevar bush?
he is mit professor and he invented "differential analyzer"
science advisor to President F.D. Roosevelt and he was leader of the Manhattan Project ,founder of NSF Bush's invented is the memex what is saving info. Bush's imagine was The differential analyzer
what is differential analyzer?
In the differential, there are a big disk and a small disk. The differential is analyzed by the distance between center and small disk by the rotating big one. The Memex saving infomation , as searching program in today.
saving info and when we need to find some info we can search easily.
i think that memex is great invention
What is bush's stated motivation?
maybe he wanted to save much info . it's bush's stated motivation
The memex is the name given by Vannevar Bush to the theoretical proto-hypertext computer system he proposed in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article As We May Think.
The memex has influenced the development of subsequential hypertext and intellect augmenting computer systems
Bush described the device as electronically linked to a library and able to display books and films from the library and automatically follow cross-references from one work to another.
The memex not only offered linked information to a user, but was also a tool for establishing the links.
The technology used would have been a combination of electromechanical controls and microfilm cameras and readers, all integrated into a large desk.
Most of the microfilm library would have been contained within the desk, but the user could add or remove microfilm reels at will.
The technology of the memex is often confused with that of hypertext.
Although Bush's idea inspired the creation of hypertext, it is not considered to be hypertext.
Indeed Bush describes the memex and other visions of As We May Think as projections of current capabilities.
The memex proposed by Bush would create trails of links connecting sequences of microfilm frames
rather than links in the modern sense where a hyperlink connects a single word, phrase or picture within a document and a local or remote destination.
What is creative thought?extraordinary,abnormal think that can make different sight. What is selection? selecting ability at much info.