2019-02-25
In a 1992 paper, Michael Buckland suggested that memex was flawed because Bush did not understand informatics well and had uncommon ideas about cataloging and taxonomy, and that “Bush believed that the generation of arbitrary associations between individual records was fundamental to memory and wanted memex instead of index. The result is personalized, superficial, and essentially self-destructive design,” he wrote. Memex - Wikipedia
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The claims of Vannevar Bush. are critically mentioned, but my experience with Scrapbox is,
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between the objective information of records.
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Making personal and subjective associations (= associative connection) is an important element of memory, I feel, so I guess I agree with Bush.
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relevance - Stock of associations 、 Associated with Scrapbox
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