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(c) the iPod allows the owner to build very personal collections (see, for example, Schwartz [2004] for a description of what an iPod can reveal about the owner); (d) although everything is not in a single format, the 60 gigabyte iPod seamlessly accommodates a variety of formats (for music, photos, audiobooks, voice mail messages); For Peer Review (e) the owner can create playlists that are similar to the Memex’s linked lists of associated items, with any item able to appear in multiple lists; (f) the owner can share playlists with others. One of the great things about the iPod is that it is so simple to use, and it would be wonderful to have a small, handy document-oriented information pod that would house all the materials one would like to collect as part of a personal memory. Conclusion: Memex as iPod/Tablet Combination Looking back at the 1945 Memex article, I believe that one of the most important parts of the description is that it was a personal device. It was a compact device (relative to then-current technology) that stored, and provided access to, the things a person would like to keep as part of a personal or professional memory, with a means for associating certain items together when desired. 2t-S-1Ed-D-P 25 John Wiley & Sons Page 26 of 38
Page 27 of 38 2t-S-1Ed-D-P And just as we now ignore the fact that the 1945 article talked about a desk-sized contraption that was not a digital machine, I think we can also ignore the fact that it did not envision databases, full-text searching, or other desirable retrieval techniques. In addition, we are beginning to ignore the reliance on manually created associations among items as the primary retrieval mechanism (e.g., digital file folders). With a unified massive memory device, we could let the machine produce the bulk of the associations. For Peer Review Rather than manually putting files or file shortcuts into digital folders, an automated process could add grouping information based on file types, acquisition method, conceptual associations and the like at acquisition time, or the machine’s retrieval methods could display grouped items based upon various associative techniques. In addition, we could still have the option of manually adding drag-and-drop labels or classification tags, or creating “playlists,” when desired. Internally, instead of traditional file structures, the basic data structures could be optimized for this type of storage and retrieval. (The development of newer internal storage structures for enhanced retrieval of item contents and concepts is certainly underway, but beyond the scope of this paper.) The core concept of a handy personal memory extension, with easy procedures for putting material into it, is still a fascinating one. The problem today is not so much that the individual capabilities of a Memex-like device are not available, because they all are in one form or another, but that they are not available in a single device in an environment that easily supports such devices. For example, paper documents that I wish to save digitally can be placed on a scanner and thus added to a digital collection, but I 26 John Wiley & Sons
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