# As We May Think **Domain:** Information Systems / Memory / Hypertext **Doc Type:** Essay Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Vannevar Bush]], [[Memex]], [[Cognitive Exteriorization]], [[Personal Computing]] --- ## Definition “As We May Think” is Vannevar Bush's July 1945 essay proposing the Memex, a desk-like system for storing documents and traversing associative trails. ## Corpus Context The essay makes memory augmentation a design problem and anticipates hypertext-like navigation. It belongs to the lineage from external memory to the bidirectional ontology of this vault. ## Relationships [[Vannevar Bush]], [[Memex]], [[Cognitive Exteriorization]], [[Personal Computing]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/