What is a memex

“Memex” is a portmanteau of “memory” and “index,” coined by Vannevar Bush in his essay As We May Think. It was an idea far ahead of its time for a system “ that would permit a researcher to follow and annotate topics of interest, analogous to later hypertext technologies.” It sounds like a personal database, but it was supposed to be more than that – an extension of an individual’s memory and…