A memex (from "memory expansion") is a hypothetical electromechanical device for interacting with microform documents and described in Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think". Bush envisioned the memex as a device in which individuals would compress and store all of their books, records, and communications, "mechanized so that it may be ...

Memex是Vannevar Bush于1945年在其文章《As We May Think》中提出的一种“扩展存储器（Memory-Extender）”设想。 文中指出，Memex是一个基于微缩胶卷存储的“个人图书馆”，可以根据“交叉引用”来播放图书和影片。

2023年7月21日 · What was Memex? The memex was a hypothetical automated information system. It was an electromechanical device built into a desk that would help people quickly and efficiently retrieve information.

A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an ...

The Memex was based on Bush's work during 1938-1940 developing an improved photoelectric microfilm selector, an electronic retrieval technology pioneered by Emanuel Goldberg of Zeiss Ikon, Dresden, in the 1920s.

The memex is a machine for individual use, where they could store all their books, records, and communications. The memex looks like a desk. It contains a storage unit for microfilms, sufficient for an individual's lifetime.

2014年5月22日 · In that landmark essay, Bush described a hypothetical machine called the Memex: a hypertext-like device capable of allowing its users to comb through a large set of documents stored on microfilm,...

2021年3月27日 · Bush expresses his concern for the direction of scientific efforts toward destruction, rather than understanding, and explicates a desire for a sort of collective memory machine with his concept of the memex that would make knowledge more accessible. Through this machine, Bush hoped to transform an information explosion into a knowledge explosion

In this article I will be telling the story of particular technical machine – Vannevar Bush’s Memex. Memex was an electro-mechanical device designed in the 1930’s to provide easy access to information stored associatively on microfilm. It is often …

2023年11月19日 · Memex pioneered the idea of linking information in digital trails decades before the internet. While never constructed, it profoundly shaped the development of hypertext, personal knowledge bases, and other technologies we now rely on daily.