On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:49 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.newsless.org/2009/03/wikipedia-foretold/ > > 'I was revisiting Vannevar Bush’s 1945 essay “As We May Think” the > other night, a text credited with having presaged the Web. Reading it, > I realized that Bush had also foreseen Wikipedia: “Wholly new forms of > encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative > trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and > there amplified.” ' >
I think Joseph Reagle discusses this (along with a number of other precursors I hadn't been aware of) in his dissertation. -Sage (User:Ragesoss) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
