M. Mitchell Waldrop

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once a Memex user had created an associative trail, he or she could copy it and exchange it with others. This meant that the construction of trails would quickly become a community endeavor, which would over time produce a vast, ever-expanding, and ever more richly cross-linked web of all human knowledge.

M. Mitchell WaldropThe Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (2001)

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been carrying this line around all week — it turns the whole question of productivity into a question of attention