On 29 March 2018 at 03:52, Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If only that were 16mm or 35mm continuous rolls, instead of microfiche! > > In 1931, Emanuel Goldberg, then a chief engineer at Zeiss built the > "Statistical Machine". By recording bits optically in the margins of > microfilm, and reading them with photocells, it could find appropriate > frames! > > For use in soundtrack for films, Mauer puts up to 8 parallel variable area > optical tracks in the margin! > 8 bit parallel! > Goldberg was also apparently responsible for the Contax camera. > BUT, in the days leading up to World War Two, he fled Dresden and Zeiss > could not afford to have mention of a Jew in a high profile position, and by > the time the war ended, they had systematically erased most clues that he > had existed! > http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/goldberg.html > > > A decade later, Vannevar Bush stole the idea, and without credit, claimed it > as his own, as the foundation for his Memex device. > Bush did not successfully build his machine. > Bush's Atlantic Monthly article, "As We May Think" is sometimes considered > the foundation of modern information science. > Bush did not understand nor accept the concepts of index nor hierarchical > organization, so he pushed for linkage to go from one topic into another. > Ted Nelson credits it as the inspiration for Hypertext, and Cern credits Ted > nelson.
This is astonishing. What a tragic loss to the world. And yet, 3 generations later, Fascist and Neo-Nazi thought is rising again. From Brexit to "All lives matter" or "Blue lives matter", or the marches in the US, the spectre of the Third Reich is rising again. -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] • Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: [email protected] Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
