today: 

• attendance
• discussion forums: examples from Google Groups
• lecture

who was vannevar bush?

• chronology
• MIT professor, inventor of "differential analyzer," science advisor to President Roosevelt, leader of the Manhattan Project, founder of NSF

who was emanuel goldberg?

• a chemist, inventor, and industrialist (Zeiss Ikon in Dresden, Germany) who contributed to almost all aspects of imaging technology in the first half of the twentieth century: photographic sensitometry, reprographics, standardized film speeds, color printing (moirC) effect), aerial photography, extreme microphotography (microdots), optics, camera design (the Contax), the first hand-held movie camera, and early television technology.

what is a microfilm selector?

• photoelectric microfilm selector is an electronic retrieval technology pioneered by Emanuel Goldberg
• The Memex was based on Bush's work during 1938-1940 developing an improved photoelectric microfilm selector.

transatlantic (non)communication

• even today, researcch results reported in europe are often unknown in the united states

as we may think: the article

• question 1: what is bush's stated motivation? (see page 37)
• question 2: what problem is bush trying to solve? (see page 38)
• question 3: what role do economical considerations play in bush's thinking? (see what he has to say about leibnitz and see page 43 on the telephone system)
• question 4: who sponsors this work?
• question 5: who are the key people/types of people bush writes about?
• scientists (see page 42)
• men
• girls (see pages 40 & 43)
• secretaries/calculators
• question 5: what is thinking and what types of thinking are possible according to bush? (see pages 43, 44 and 45)
• what is creative thought?
• what is intuitive judgement? (page 42)
• what role does arithmetic and logic play? (cf., geogre boole's laws of thought)
• what is selection?
• what is repetitive thought?
• question 6: what is the "essential feature of the memex"? (page 45 and compare to david hume's philosophy)
• question 7: is the www of today the same thing as what bush dreamed of?