Re: The coming predominance of userexperienceandtechnicalcommunications

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

This is sort of like saying that Gene Roddenberry "contributed" to the
development of big-screen television because there was one on the
bridge of the USS Enterprise.  Al Gore would have a better claim
to the Internet, if he had ever actually tried to make it.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Borokowski" <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> "Like many developments in the history of computing, some of the ideas
> for a GUI computer were thought of long before the technology was even
> available to build such a machine. One of the first people to express
> these ideas was Vannevar Bush. In the early 1930s he first wrote of a
> device he called the 'Memex,' which he envisioned as looking like a
> desk with two touch screen graphical displays, a keyboard, and a
> scanner attached to it. It would allow the user to access all human
> knowledge using connections very similar to how hyperlinks work. At
> this point, the digital computer had not been invented, so there was no
> way for such a device to actually work, and Bush's ideas were not
> widely read or discussed at that time."

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