What Sully liked:
As We May Think by Vannevar Bush from the July 1945 issue of the Atlantic is the first candidate. An excerpt:Not bloody likely. No one will believe silly crap like that.
Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, "memex" will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.
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