[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia was foretold by Vannevar Bush

[Sage Ross]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:49 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at 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.

-Sage (User:Ragesoss)