9. A special button transfers him immediately to the first
page of the index. Any given book of his library can thus
be called up and consulted with far greater facility than
if it were taken from a shelf. As he has several
projection positions, he can leave one item in position
while he calls up another.
Vannevar Bush
As We May Think, 1945
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32. an “anonymous history” should include not only the
industrial developments, but also the social history of
the computer user, the history of the computer as an
object of design and as a source of style and fashion, the
histories of the computer in counter- and subcultural
contexts, the history of the computer’s encounter and
gradual merger with media culture… and, indeed, the
“mental history” of the computer—the computer as a
“dream machine,” an immaterial object of desires,
fantasies, fears and utopias
Erkki Huhtamo
From Kaleidoscomaniac to Cybernerd: Notes towards and Archeology of Media
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