@barking 🧵As We May Not Think
Very enjoyable, and great live use of #aswemaythink trail tech!
I smiled at your note on Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort’s ‘New Media Reader’. It’s still a great read and has scholarly glosses — and sometimes full text — of original sources.
https://www.newmediareader.com/about.html
The NMR Book Samples page includes a free link to the excellent chapter on Ted Nelson’s ‘Computer Lib / Dream Machines’.
https://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-21-nelson.pdf
@dpiponi On the other hand, “As we may think” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think) is from 1945. There was something in the air at that time!
I would think that the war and the technological progress caused by it (including the atom bomb) let some people develop an extreme techno-optimism.
And Arthur C. Clarke's idea of using geostationary satellites for telecommunication (https://www.wired.com/2011/05/0525arthur-c-clarke-proposes-geostationary-satellites) is also from 1945!
If you haven't yet read the #VannevarBush article that imagined the information rich world we now live in, take a moment to do now — it was published 69 years ago this month
And even if you have read it, seeing it as it appeared in its original print form (ads and all) is pretty amazing, too
modular publishing a la @ResearchEquals came to mind as I re-read “As We May Think” closely. R= paths/journeys (do they have a “canonical” name?) are not quite memex trails, but they seem to be kindred spirits.
Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think”, The Atlantic, July 1945. <https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archives/1945/07/176-1/132407932.pdf>
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