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From the world brain to the world wide web Annual Gresham College BSHM Lecture

Pages 1-10 | Published online: 28 Feb 2007
 

Abstract

The world wide web has evolved into a universe of information at our finger tips. But this was not an idea born with the internet. This lecture recounts earlier attempts to disseminate information, such as H G Wells' world brain in the 1930s, Vannevar Bush's memex in the 1940s, and J C R Licklider's ideas of man--computer symbiosis.

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