#memex (3)

Vannevar Bush's wartime essay imagining the Memex — a personal device for storing and associatively linking all of one's books, records, and communications.

A persistent, interlinked knowledge base that a language model builds and maintains — integrating each source once, rather than re-deriving answers from raw documents on every query.

Engineer and wartime science administrator whose 1945 essay imagined the Memex, the conceptual seed of hypertext and the personal knowledge base.