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.” '
Also some nice words for Wikinews and similar endeavours.
- d.