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Vannevar Bush's Vision

In 1945 Vannevar Bush, an inventor and engineer, coined term 'trails' in his seminal essay entitled 'As We May Think'. Mr. Bush conceived of a product he called the Memex, which would enable a user to create a trail of linked and annotated pages. The idea was to annotate pages while you research a topic. Each note would be linked to the next note in the trail. Trails would be used to share your knowledge, the result of your research and with a dash of your insight.



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Added by John OHalloran on May 10, 2007 at 4:45pm — 3 Comments

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