The following conversation was transcribed during the airing of the popular (and fictional) television show Futurists Revisited, hosted by Jim Marinetti. The show aired on January 14, 2001. Because he had been "missing" since 1974, there was some suspicion that the Dr. Vannevar Bush on the show was not the real Vannevar Bush. However, all worries were dispelled when it was realized that the show was fictional anyway.
During the fictional interview, Bush and Marinetti discussed Bush's early vision of the "memex," a machine for indexing and accessing information. Bush and Marinetti then considered the recent development of the World-Wide Web and compared Bush's decades-old vision to the present-day manifestation on the Web. Finally, Bush considers the role of "trailblazers" in designing a useful Web.
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