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?
Carcharoth