[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia was foretold by Vannevar Bush

[David Gerard]

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.