Bush's Memex concept had a massive operational blind spot: while he could envision interconnected knowledge structures, he couldn't answer who would actually build and maintain all the associative trails as new information continuously arrived.
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“He could envision this beautiful interconnected web of knowledge, but he couldn't answer the practical question, who actually builds and maintains all these associative trails?... Who sits at the desk physically linking the microfilm every single day as a deluge of new information arrives? Man, that requires a devastating amount of manual labor. Like, literally the manual labor of thought itself.”
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