or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
23 used & new from £25.00
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine
 
 
Share your own customer images
Search inside this book

From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine (Hardcover)

by James M. Nyce (Author), Paul Kahn (Author) "ONE DAY IN 1942, THE ROCKEFELLER DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZER was dedicated to winning the war ..." (more)
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
RRP: £56.00
Price: £53.20 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £2.80 (5%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

Only 2 left in stock--order soon (more on the way).

Want guaranteed delivery by Wednesday, November 11? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
15 new from £49.49 8 used from £25.00

Product details

  • Hardcover: 367 pages
  • Publisher: Academic Press (4 Feb 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0125232705
  • ISBN-13: 978-0125232708
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.8 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,363,591 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in this category:

    #15 in  Books > Science & Nature > Engineering & Technology > Electronics & Communications Engineering > Electronics Engineering > Analog Electronics

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

  • See Complete Table of Contents

Customers Viewing This Page May Be Interested in These Sponsored Links

  (What is this?)
   Traction Software opens new browser window
www.TractionSoftware.com  -  Beyond Blogs and Wikis Award winning E2.0 Software 
  
 

Product Description

Product Description

Vannevar Bush, the engineer who designed the world's most powerful analog computer, predicted the development of a new kind of computing machine he called Memex. For many computer and information scientists, Bush's Memex has been the prototype for a machine to help people think. This book contains Bush's essays, and original essays by academic and commerical researchers relating the state of art in personal computing, hypertext and information retrieval software to bush's ideas and Memex.
Inside This Book (Learn More)
First Sentence
ONE DAY IN 1942, THE ROCKEFELLER DIFFERENTIAL ANALYZER was dedicated to winning the war. Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
Search inside this book:

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
history of technology

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags
 

Customer Reviews

1 Review
5 star:
 (1)
4 star:    (0)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
5.0 out of 5 stars As we may point and click, 18 Mar 1997
By A Customer
Vannevar Bush was Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. In the July 1945 edition of the Atlantic Monthly, he published a popular science article entitled "As We May Think." Bush discusses a device called a "memex", a sort of workstation with vast optical storage and mechanical information retrieval using associative indexing and "trails". The article is of interest today not only because he happened to get pretty close to how the future finally turned out, but also for the fresh perspective from a time before interactivity itself had been invented. It is also curious to see what he got wrong. Unlike our present day Visionaries, he completely failed to anticipate the introduction of Microsoft Windows on the PC.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 

   

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject




















i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback

Ad

Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.