Bush: As We May Think and the memex

What changed

Described the conceptual memex and associative trails as a way for an individual to store, consult and connect records beyond conventional indexing.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact July 1945 Atlantic article and its conceptual proposal. It is not an implemented computer system and is not treated as sole authorship of later hypertext, personal computing or graphical interfaces.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact July 1945 Atlantic article and its conceptual proposal. It is not an implemented computer system and is not treated as sole authorship of later hypertext, personal computing or graphical interfaces.

Contributors

• Vannevar Bush · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Bush, As We May Think
• MIT-hosted copy of As We May Think

Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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