29 May
2012
29 May
'12
1:16 p.m.
At 08:23 PM 5/26/2012, Fred Cisin wrote:
>Both were optical encoding of half a dozen bits accompanying each frame of film
On Tue, 29 May 2012, John Foust wrote:
Nothing exceeds like excess, kids!
Actually, the examples that I gave (Bush's Memex, Goldberg's Rapid
Selector) were in response to a tangent, and not about the orginal
subject. Both examples (more than 50 years ago) were metadata for
finding the right frame of microfilm. Bush lifted the idea, without
attribution, from Goldberg (see Buckland). But Bush's description
(that incorrectly implied actual consturction) became his "As We May
Think" paper that was arguably the seminal work of modern IR, and
inspired Ted Nelson, who . . . (watch "Hyperland"!! (BBC pre WWW
feature about future of internet by Douglas Adams and Ted Nelson,
starring Tom Baker) )