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1 CHAPTER
1 BIG
DATAÕS OTHER
PRIVACY
PROBLEM
! ! ! James Grimmelmann
* I. THE MODERN MEMEX
We still donÕt have personal jetpacks or lunar clone colonies,
but at
least we got the memex. In 1945, Vannevar Bush, writing with the kind of
foresight usually reserved for mystics and madmen, sketched a design for
the dream desk of the future. Built around a microfilm archive, BushÕs
design lets the user flip throu
gh data at will, following associations and
creating new ones. The Òintricate web of trailsÓ in the researcherÕs brain is
mapped out in the annotations he makes, creating a permanent record of
his discoveries:
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. The lawyer has at
his touch the associated opinions and decisions of his whole
experience, and of the experience of friends and auth
orities. The
patent attorney has on call the millions of issued patents, with
familiar trails to every point of his clientÕs interest. The physician,
puzzled by a patientÕs reactions, strikes the trail established in
studying an earlier similar case, and r
uns rapidly through
analogous case histories, with side references to the classics for
the pertinent anatomy and histology. The chemist, struggling
with the synthesis of an organic compound, has all the chemical
literature before him in his laboratory, wit
h trails following the
analogies of compounds, and side trails to their physical and
chemical behavior.
1 Bush called this device the Òmemex,Ó but only because he had never seen a
Bloomberg Terminal.
In a way, any computer with an Internet connection is a m
emex that
also plays cat videos, but in another (more accurate) way, the Bloomberg
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!* Professor of Law, University of Maryland. This chapter is available for reuse under th
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. 1 Vannevar Bush,
As We May Think,
ATLANTIC
MONTHLY, July 1945, at 112,
available at
http://
www.theatlantic.
com/
magazine/
archive/
1945/07/as-we-may
-think/
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