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Bush is an interesting person (I built a desk-sized Memex "reproduction" and am currently building 20 tiny Memex!) but I wonder about using him as a role model.

Bush is an interesting person (I built a desk-sized Memex "reproduction" and am currently building 20 tiny Memex!) but I wonder about using him as a role model. The era of Big Science that he helped create after WWII was wildly one-sided, with most of the money going to the large firms that built the war machine. Many excellent inventions and innovations resulted but all from within ~one worldview and that's not a productive way to run greenfield research today.

mdp2021 5y ago
Trevor being "shy" ( /J ), he did not provide the links for his Memex implementations: one is at http://memexsim.sourceforge.net/ http://memexsim.sourceforge.net/ , from his projects page https://trevor.smith.name/project/ https://trevor.smith.name/project/ . And can I recommend taking a look at his website, https://trevor.smith.name https://trevor.smith.name , very rich in stimula. By the way: Trevor has done research and management about Augmented Reality - I have also been a very happy adopter of the AR technology for many years (through the Epson Moverio), to optimize document access time: more clearly, using them as readers through optimized software I wrote. Is not the AR technology a good new option for the development of the memex paradigm?