To grow in wisdom: Vannevar Bush, information overload, and the life of leisure

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 281-286

  Levy, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypertext; Information overload; Memex; Vannevar Bush

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION OVERLOAD; PERSONAL INFORMATION DEVICE; WISDOM;

PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 27544505361     PISSN: 15525996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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