Project GutenbergJun 5, 2023

Ingenious librarians
A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it. By Monica Westin
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The 1970s librarians who revolutionised the challenge of search | Aeon Essays

A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it

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A science fiction story, written in the 1940s, also predicted a vast database of knowledge, accessible to everyone in their homes, through a dedicated viewer / keyboard setup.

Jun 5, 2023 at 4:15pmWeb