Xref: utzoo comp.windows.misc:941 comp.sys.next:1168 comp.sys.mac:24805 comp.windows.ms:168 comp.windows.x:7141 alt.cyberpunk:1263 comp.lang.smalltalk:828 comp.misc:4622 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!decwrl!ucbvax!rutgers!mailrus!sharkey!emv From: emv@a.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.x,alt.cyberpunk,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.misc Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor [As We May Think] Keywords: memex Message-ID: <6009@mailgw.cc.umich.edu> Date: 7 Jan 89 09:38:19 GMT References: <4362@pitt.UUCP> <2350@cuuxb.ATT.COM> Reply-To: emv@mailgw.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) Followup-To: comp.misc Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor Lines: 15 In article <2350@cuuxb.ATT.COM> dlm@cuuxb.UUCP (Dennis L. Mumaugh) writes: >%A Vannevar Bush >%T As We May Think >%J Altantic Monthly >%D August 21945 It's in the first of the Microsoft CD-Rom books if you library doesn't carry Atlantic Monthly back to 1945. Dennis is absolutely right on this one; if you haven't read this article, then you haven't got enough perspective on what information technology really can be like. If anyone has on-line ASCII text of the article I'd love to have it, or post it to comp.text. --Ed