Vision
An annotated collection of 3 books & essays on vision, spanning 1945 to 1981. Featuring works by Vannevar Bush, Ted Nelson — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
As We May Think
Point zero. Bush imagined the Memex in 1945 — a machine for augmenting human memory through associative trails. Every hyperlink, every wiki, every recommendation system is a partial realisation of this essay. Read it not…
Computer Lib / Dream Machines
The most radical manifesto of personal computing — a book printed back-to-back, readable from either end. Nelson coined "hypertext" and argued that computers are too important to be left to computer scientists. Wild, unc…
Literary Machines
Nelson's self-published, endlessly revised manifesto describes Project Xanadu — a hypertext system conceived in the 1960s that envisioned two-way links, version tracking, micropayments for authors, and transclusion as al…