Building A Modern Memex
Channel: Our Networks
Date: 2019-12-10

Bret Victor posed an important question: over a long time horizon, what strategy for preserving information has been most successful? Redundant copies stored in a distributed way (for example, each of us storing a full copy of the human genome) or a centralized repository (like the Library of Alexandria)?

For the last few years, I've been working on a project to pull a copy of my personal history from across all the platforms and tools I use and make it available for archiving, search, and computation.

I'd like to go over the historical project that inspired this project (the Memex of 1945) as well as giving a demo of the system I've built.

Building a Memex: https://hyfen.net/memex

The Web of Alexandria: http://worrydream.com/TheWebOfAlexandria/

Our Networks: https://ournetworks.ca