Replied to The Memex, the Manhatten Project, and the month of July 1945 by Matt WebbMatt Webb (Interconnected)
I wonder about these two legacies, the Memex and the Manhatten Project, and which has had the greater influence on the world.
Some revisionist history here glorifying Bush and the Memex without any mention of the long historical precedent of the commonplace book.

So for Bush’s greatest legacy, my answer would have to be his supervision and support of Claude Shannon’s work at MIT.

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  1. Some revisionist history here glorifying Bush and the Memex without any mention of the long historical precedent of the commonplace book.
    So for Bush’s greatest legacy, my answer would have to be his supervision and support of Claude Shannon’s work at MIT.

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