On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:49 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com 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?
http://reagle.org/joseph/2005/historical/digital-works.html
I think was was the 2005 draft of his first chapter.
According the final (2008) table of contents, it looks like the part on Bush has been expanded to its own section of that chapter: http://reagle.org/joseph/2008/03/dsrtn-in-good-faith
-Sage