When I first read As We May Think* as a teenager, I was astonished by how much it predicted of the computer age in 1945—but recently I’ve been feeling wistful about some pieces it predicts which never came to pass. [thread] *https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ …
Neat! What was the motivation / framing? I'm not sure I'd want to explicitly order materials (I could do that with files now, I guess, and I don't!)—more like I want to see something about how these things relate. eg. if it's 30 papers, were 28 of them references I found from 2?
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usually for presentation for others. collections weren’t just a set of things that went together.
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people also really really wanted alphabetization for some reason
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