A Record, If It Is To Be

Associative Indexing, The Basic Idea Of Which Is A Provision Whereby Any Item May Be Caused At Will To Select Immediately And Automatically Another. This Is The Essential Feature Of The Memex. The Process Of Tying Two Items Together Is The Important Thing.

There Will Always Be Plenty Of Things To Compute In The Detailed Affairs Of Millions Of People Doing Complicated Things.

The Question Of Whether A Device Will Come Into Being Depends Upon Three Things: First, Whether There Is A Practical Use For It That Warrants Its Development And Manufacturing Costs; Second, Whether The Laws Of Physics Applying To The Elements Available For Its Design Allow The Attainment Of The Needed Ranges, Sensitivities, Or The Like; And Third, Whether The Pertinent Art Of Manufacture Has Advanced Sufficiently To Allow A Useful Embodiment To Be Built Successfully.

Presumably Man's Spirit Should Be Elevated If He Can Better Review His Shady Past And Analyze More Completely And Objectively His Present Problems.

Wholly New Forms Of Encyclopedias Will Appear, Ready Made With A Mesh Of Associative Trails Running Through Them, Ready To Be Dropped Into The Memex And There Amplified.