A couple of weeks ago, I opened Overcast and saw an episode title that immediately grabbed me: The Memex. The Memex is a fictional piece of hardware in an essay "As We May Think." The Memex predicts that as available knowledge becomes overwhelming, the critical task for a knowledge worker is to extend their own ability to access relevant information. The Memex anticipated technology advances and miniaturization to imagine a desk that could contain hundreds of tiny records, which could be proj...

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