A fully functional Memex[1,2], for the Web. "instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowl

A fully functional Memex[1,2], for the Web. "instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages. The perfection of these pacific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge from their war work." It's been about 80 years... and we still haven't done it yet. This is worse than the debacle with string theory. A fully functional Memex would work like a normal web browser, but allow you to look back on your entire history locally, and make a copy of any of it for someone else, locally. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m... [1a] https://web.archive.org/web/20150214162829/http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/?single_page=true https://web.archive.org/web/20150214162829/http://www.theatl... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think