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Memex vs Google 12345

I’m late to this bandwaggon, but this is beginning to look really significant. We now have Google tracking: Real World (Google CityBlock) Academia (Google DSpace) all forms of media (Google…

I’m late to this bandwaggon, but this is beginning to look really significant.

We now have Google tracking:


  1. Real World (Google CityBlock)

  2. Academia (Google DSpace)

  3. all forms of media (Google Amazon A9)

  4. People (Orkut)

  5. and their Correspondence (GMail).

Five more reasons to think that the Memex has arrived…

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  1. dpm Avatar
    dpm

    Reading ‘As We May Think’ carefully tells you there is no such thing as ‘The Memex’. Quoth, “Consider a device for *individual* use…”
    Google can not make a Memex by indexing paths within the directed acyclic graph of the Web because they determine the weighting. A collective memex can not truely exist before the individual memex exists.