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In this approach you the reader have open access to all articles that have been, and are currently being, published in JKMP by TLA. Please note that the articles have been optimised for viewing using Internet Explorer. I think of this open library concept as a "knowledge garden". Note that articles originating prior to August 1999 were published in the Journal of Systemic Knowledge Management. If you are pleased with what you see in JKMP, please visit us on FaceBook and Comment &/or Like. Peter A.C. In The Knowledge Garden: Volume 1: 1998 - 1999 Volume 2: 2000 - 2001 Volume 3: 2002 Volume 4: 2003 Volume 5: 2004 Volume 6: 2005 Vol. 7, No. 1, March 2006 Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2006 Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2006 Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2006 Vol. 8, No. 1, March 2007 Vol. 8, SI-1, May 2007.
Memex. As We May Think - Magazine. As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr.
Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. For years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind. Trip hammers that multiply the fists, microscopes that sharpen the eye, and engines of destruction and detection are new results, but not the end results, of modern science.
This has not been a scientist's war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. For the biologists, and particularly for the medical scientists, there can be little indecision, for their war has hardly required them to leave the old paths. There is a growing mountain of research. Doug Engelbart 1968 Demo. Personal knowledge management. Vannevar Bush. Vannevar Bush was never directly involved with the creation or development of the Internet.
He died before the creation of the World Wide Web. Yet many consider Bush to be the Godfather of our wired age often making reference to his 1945 essay, "As We May Think. " In his article, Bush described a theoretical machine he called a "memex," which was to enhance human memory by allowing the user to store and retrieve documents linked by associations. This associative linking was very similar to what is known today as hypertext. Indeed, Ted Nelson who later did pioneering work with hypertext credited Bush as his main influence (Zachary, 399). In 1937, Bush became the president of the Carnegie Institution. "The owner of the memex let us say, is interested in the origin and properties of the bow and arrow. This system is remarkably similar to modern hypertext. Personal Memex. The Vision Over the last few years, I’ve been interested in the fields of Personal Knowledge Management (or PKM) and Personal Learning Environments (or PLE).
I’ve been a knowledge worker as long as I can remember, and have subsequently searched long and hard for numerous software applications and systems to help me better process, organize, and retrieve information. I’ve tried many different free and commercial solutions (outliners, PIMs, personal knowledge bases, mind mapping software, notebooks/pad, etc.), but none of then were 100% complete in my mind. Then, In 2006 I came across Vannevar Bush, and learned about his amazing vision for the Memex (or “memory extender”). The memex is the name given by Vannevar Bush to the theoretical proto-hypertext computer system he proposed in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article As We May Think. “Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. What is It, and What Can It Do? Core Components in Use.