[Sigia-l] Information-centered Design

[Pittas Marios]

Ed

Having studied the paper way back in the early nineties, Vannevar's vision
also talked about being able to share that knowledge by "taking" what
information I traversed (through the information universe) and passing it to
others (can't remember whether he talked about sharing the links to the
information or the actual information itself)...

Needless to say that that vision was described with the technology available
back then ("Atlantic Monthly", 1940's I believe?)..

I can't seem to remember whether he talked about networked machines.. I
believe not.. he thought more of single machines, like typewriters (? is
that correct ?).. However, the vision was clearly one of information sharing
in order to biuld knowledge so that... emm... to reduce wars... mmmm

The closest that we have probably come to this vision is probably IE's
"Send" menu.. hmm.. :-)

Marios

-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On Behalf Of
Ed Housman
Sent: 05 April 2003 05:23
To: Coon, Sean; sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] Information-centered Design


Perhaps we should look back to see
what Vannevar Busch (sp)said about
the "world brain."  He was Franklyn
Roosevelt's science advisor way back
then.  I will look up the reference
in the old Panalog conference in the
80's... hold on ... here's the quote


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ABOUT THE SAME TOPIC OR REFERRING TO EACH OTHER
IS A NOVEL CONCEPT FOR CONFERENCING, I BELIEVE.
ITS SIMILAR TO VANAVAR BUSH'S CONCEPTUAL LINKS,
CITATION LINKING AS EXPLOITED BY S.C.I CONFERENCE
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No, that's not it..

Hmm. I will search for the reference.  Vannavar
had a vision of a central library of human
knowledge, accessible to all, though there was
no internet then, and very few computers all powered
by vacuum tubes and not connected to one another.

A visionary's visions are worth contemplating in
a new age.

--Ed


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