Memex: Browser Extension to full-text search your browsing history and bookmarks
I haven&#x27;t looked over the whole site, but I find it curious that this wasn&#x27;t mentioned here (or possibly there):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;As_We_May_Think" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;As_We_May_Think</a><p>Because it seems this is yet (another) iteration or attempt on the device Bush described?<p>Really, hypertext, HTML, the web, browsers, etc - are all a part of such a system, but what is needed to really complete the loop - so to speak - is for everything to be P2P - so anyone can easily create and share information (hypertext &quot;documents&quot; - whatever a &quot;document&quot; may be) and share contextual annotations (highlights and notes) on those pages, with maybe some manner to incorporate them into the main &quot;text&quot; as needed when they become too cumbersome outside the main text, along with easy P2P indexing and searching of the collective corpus of &quot;works&quot;.<p>But this is completely at odds with how the current &quot;web ecosystem&quot; works, and certainly doesn&#x27;t appear to be how this particular incarnation works (this seems to be a siloed system, if anything). Today&#x27;s system takes control away from the users for the most part, unless they pay extra (ie - to create and maintain a server or whatnot for their own personal content - or not pay, but pay by giving away other information that the company giving them &quot;free hosting&quot; or whatnot can use). A complete P2P system would upend that model, assuming it could be made to work well (the asymmetry of the broadband infrastructure for consumers doesn&#x27;t help, either).<p>I know there are more than a few P2P competitors out there that do much of what I am speaking of, but I don&#x27;t think any of them do the complete &quot;Bush Memex&quot; system. Then again, maybe that&#x27;s a good thing - otherwise we might end up with an unholy combo of wikipedia coupled with 4&#x2F;8chan with a dab of reddit or something like that...?