Time for a history lesson:"As we may think" By Vannevar Bush .pdf
Don't you hate it when you have a great idea only to discover that some one else has already thought of it? Well guess what, good ole' Vannevar thought up the internet and desktop PC's all the way back in 1945! Vannevar postulates that a desk sized device he calls the "Memex" could be created to store, index, and search all the worlds information. He proposes that advancing technologies in magnetic film and tape be used to make increasingly small microfiche that could contain all of the information. A bit implausible in retrospect but luckily for us the semiconductor was invented some 15 years later and made all this "digital" stuff possible, otherwise I'd be blogging to you all from my Memex Microfiche 3000.
