RE: The coming predominance of userexperienceandtechnicalcommunications

Subject: RE: The coming predominance of userexperienceandtechnicalcommunications
From: "Andrew Warren" <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com>
To: "Chris Borokowski" <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>, "Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>, "Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:33:51 -0700

Chris Borokowski wrote:

> 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.

Um, no. He envisioned it as having two screens on which to
project microfilm -- no touch-sensitivity -- a keyboard, a
number of levers, and a microfilm camera.

His original article is here:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush

> Vannevar -> George Senior -> George W. -> ??? 4. Profit

Um, no. No relation.

-Andrew

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