On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Sage Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Do you have details or links to this Reagle dissertation? Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
