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“Consider a future device … in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with

“Consider a future device … in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.” By Vannevar Bush

Obscurity4340 3y ago
The Memex
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y ago
  A great idea until Big Brother subpoenas you and decides that pleading the fifth does not apply for electronic devices.
  - jahewson 3y ago
    It doesn’t apply to paper documents either. Though it does apply to your passcode :)
  - mistermann 3y ago
    "Say, that's a nice 'democratic' governmental organization you have there....would be a real shame if something was to happen to it."
  - BowBun 3y ago
    I would assume a device that records data is already fair game for evidence by legal means. If you want to get technocratic about it, you'd need to start arguing that this kind of tool is an extension of your mind/consciousness of which you are currently entitled privacy to (probably more due to lack of tech than strong ethics). But there's no tech the government does not want to regulate, so your version is probably right.
  - Obscurity4340 3y ago
    I wonder if that memory thing Dumbledore had was open to Ministry subpeonas...
- Obscurity4340 3y ago
  Smartphones are basically already "The Memex", didnt really expect this would start te current thread aha
obmelvin 3y ago
Read/discussed "As We May Think" in a grad school HCI class - highly recommend it to anyone interested in the history of computing. It is available behind a paywall on The Atlantic website, but you can see the original magazine layout here (which is even cooler IMO) - https://archive.org/details/as-we-may-think https://archive.org/details/as-we-may-think
mensetmanusman 3y ago
Building 13 @ MIT is named after him. Cool to think this tech will be there soon :)
- ithkuil 3y ago
  I thought we already had that. We humans are never happy with the current stuff

Obscurity4340 3y ago

The Memex

KRAKRISMOTT 3y ago
A great idea until Big Brother subpoenas you and decides that pleading the fifth does not apply for electronic devices.
- jahewson 3y ago
  It doesn’t apply to paper documents either. Though it does apply to your passcode :)
- mistermann 3y ago
  "Say, that's a nice 'democratic' governmental organization you have there....would be a real shame if something was to happen to it."
- BowBun 3y ago
  I would assume a device that records data is already fair game for evidence by legal means. If you want to get technocratic about it, you'd need to start arguing that this kind of tool is an extension of your mind/consciousness of which you are currently entitled privacy to (probably more due to lack of tech than strong ethics). But there's no tech the government does not want to regulate, so your version is probably right.
- Obscurity4340 3y ago
  I wonder if that memory thing Dumbledore had was open to Ministry subpeonas...
Obscurity4340 3y ago
Smartphones are basically already "The Memex", didnt really expect this would start te current thread aha

obmelvin 3y ago

Read/discussed "As We May Think" in a grad school HCI class - highly recommend it to anyone interested in the history of computing. It is available behind a paywall on The Atlantic website, but you can see the original magazine layout here (which is even cooler IMO) - https://archive.org/details/as-we-may-think https://archive.org/details/as-we-may-think

mensetmanusman 3y ago

Building 13 @ MIT is named after him. Cool to think this tech will be there soon :)

ithkuil 3y ago
I thought we already had that. We humans are never happy with the current stuff