A few notes on Vannevar Bush's amazing essay, "As We May Think", from the 1945(!) @TheAtlantic :https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ …
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"As We May Think" is part of a tiny genre: a grand vision document that's extremely insightful, and which becomes incredibly influential. It's tempting to say prescient, but the essay actually helped create its imagined future.
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"As We May Think" seems to me like the writings of Locke or Montesquieu: a set of ideas that decisively influenced major parts of our cultural operating system. In one case, the US Constitution (& the many others influenced), in the other, the web & computer software more broadly
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It's fun to consider "As We May Think" as part of a line of successful grand vision documents: Engelbart on "Augmenting Human Intellect" (https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html … ), Alan Kay on "A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages" (https://mprove.de/diplom/gui/kay72.html … ) ...
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Maxwell's paper on Dynabook is the best one I've ever seen describing Alan Kay's idea and I hope it can be more influential: http://worrydream.com/refs/Maxwell%20-%20Tracing%20the%20Dynabook.pdf …
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