On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Sage Ross > <ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:49 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> http://www.newsless.org/2009/03/wikipedia-foretold/ >>> >>> 'I was revisiting Vannevar Bush’s 1945 essay “As We May Think” the >>> other night, a text credited with having presaged the Web. Reading it, >>> I realized that Bush had also foreseen Wikipedia: “Wholly new forms of >>> encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative >>> trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and >>> there amplified.” ' >>> >> >> I think Joseph Reagle discusses this (along with a number of other >> precursors I hadn't been aware of) in his dissertation. > > Do you have details or links to this Reagle dissertation? >
http://reagle.org/joseph/2005/historical/digital-works.html I think was was the 2005 draft of his first chapter. According the final (2008) table of contents, it looks like the part on Bush has been expanded to its own section of that chapter: http://reagle.org/joseph/2008/03/dsrtn-in-good-faith -Sage _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
