Projects and resources

• Analytical Engine04:52The talk presents Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine as an early concept for a programmable computer.
• Telephone Hirmondo09:10The talk describes the Telephone Hirmondo as an early telephone newspaper that delivered news over a dedicated line.
• Mundaneum19:27The talk describes Paul Otlet's Mundaneum as an attempt to collect and index the world's books, magazines and other information.
• Science Citation Index34:43The talk credits Eugene Garfield with developing the Science Citation Index as a way to trace the influence of scientific papers.

Books

• World Brain11:26The talk names H. G. Wells's 1938 essay collection World Brain as a vision of a global information resource.
• Traite de documentation22:32The talk identifies Paul Otlet's Traite de documentation as the work where a computer-like information system begins to emerge.
• Literary Machines44:37The talk recommends Ted Nelson's Literary Machines when discussing hypertext and linked documents.

Papers and articles

• As We May Think28:49The talk names Vannevar Bush's essay As We May Think while introducing the Memex as a tool for linking information.
• Augmenting Human Intellect36:48The talk recommends Doug Engelbart's white paper Augmenting Human Intellect as a significant read about information tools.