In his famous paper "As we may think" Vannevar Bush provides a vision for creating machines that can interpret pictures, take dictation, understand language, and use hyper-links and associative retrieval from digital libraries. In this talk, we will review what 50 years of progress has taught us with respect to each of these predictions.
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Abstract
http://www.eecs.mit.edu/AY95-96/events/bush/f10.html