As We May Think by Vannevar Bush Heerin Lee
After a war... a growing amount of research however, our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are old scientific efforts should make all previous collected human knowledge more accessible through machine
Progress in recording dry photography - used in facsimile transmission microfilm - The Encyclopedia Britannica could be reduced to the volume of a matchbox tiny camera fitted with universal-focus lens - move freely and record the worthy
Progress in writing Voder - emits recognizable speech of stroked key Vocoder - converse of Voder Vannevar Bush predict a new machine: - take dictation - type it automatically - talk back if the author wants to review what he just said
Selection in researches creative aspect of thinking involve the entire process by which man profits by his inheritance of acquired knowledge automatic telephone exchange etc. the way human mind works - association - things are connected by association of thoughts
Memex an electromechanical device an individual desk with screens, a keyboard, buttons, levers a user can store all his books, records, and communications as microfilm a user could add or remove microfilm reels at will personal computer, online encyclopedias
Associative trail a way to create a new linear sequence of microfilm frames across any arbitrary sequence of microfilm frames by creating a chained sequence of links with personal comments and side trails bookmarks, search by a keyword, hypertext system etc.