Response to "As We May Think"

1.      What is research like for bush in 1945? --What are the problems with it?

In 1945, with the influence of World War II, the sciences have been developing, and there are lots of researches appear in quantity during that time which likes a growing mountain for Bush. The scientists begin to devote themselves to the scientific research, which develops new equipment that help scientific progress and benefit to people’s life. However, there exist problems of scientific research. The ways to manage and summarizing the research conclusions are truly old and inadequate for people to extract the significant results among a large number of things. Therefore, Dr. Bush came up with the idea of memex to store the results of research.

2.      What is the memex?

Memex is a sort of mechanized private file and library which is envisioned as a device in which individuals would be able to compress and store all of their books, records, and communications. Memex consists of a desk with slanting translucent screens on the top. Memex provides connections between various data, and it is mechanized and is consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility.

3.      Do we have anything similar to the memex today?

I think the memex is similar to hypertext today, since it can find books and films according to cross reference, and also provides the function to establish connection between information so that people can set up links to some microfilm and even add their own comments. It is similar to memex in the way of storing and organizing lots of data.