Bush wanted everyone to have a personal desk-sized machine designed to use microfilm to store huge amounts of books, articles, and notes. The Memex would let users add new information by taking pictures and storing them on microfilm, then searching and jumping between related items using a special keyboard, like choosing paths through a branching network, instead of relying on alphabetical or numerical order.
Easy, right? Just two problems: Getting information in and out. Over the decades, ambitious nerds tried to make lifelogging happen.
In the 1980s, a Canadian inventor and University of Toronto professor named Steve Mann built wearable computers and sensors that fed data onto hard drives — video, audio, and other data, sometimes sensing hand positions and environmental information using cameras, microphones, antennas, and other sensors.
Bush wanted everyone to have a personal desk-sized machine designed to use microfilm to store huge amounts of books, articles, and notes.
Easy, right?
Just two problems: Getting information in and out.
Over the decades, ambitious nerds tried to make lifelogging happen.
In the 1980s, a Canadian inventor and University of Toronto professor named Steve Mann built wearable computers and sensors that fed data onto hard drives — video, audio, and other data, sometimes sensing hand positions and environmental information using cameras, microphones, antennas, and other sensors.
Bush wanted everyone to have a personal desk-sized machine designed to use microfilm to store huge amounts of books, articles, and notes. The Memex would let users add new information by taking pictures and storing them on microfilm, then searching and jumping between related items using a special keyboard, like choosing paths through a branching network, instead of relying on alphabetical or numerical order.
Easy, right? Just two problems: Getting information in and out. Over the decades, ambitious nerds tried to make lifelogging happen.
In the 1980s, a Canadian inventor and University of Toronto professor named Steve Mann built wearable computers and sensors that fed data onto hard drives — video, audio, and other data, sometimes sensing hand positions and environmental information using cameras, microphones, antennas, and other sensors.
