Word: microfilm
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...from his old friend and aide, Navy Captain Harry C. Butcher, onetime CBS vice president. Last week the Saturday Evening Post bid $175,000, highest price of the war, for serial rights to the war diary which Harry Butcher wrote from North Africa to the Rheims surrender, photographed on microfilm, and kept in a safe...
...gunfire, for example) developed during the war. Dr. Bush has decided that scientists should now devote themselves to organizing the vast amount of uncollated information about the world. There is no mechanical substitute, he concedes, for mature thought. But he suggests that a lot can still be done with microfilm and the electronic tube...
...Microfilm (using much greater reductions than are now common) could reduce the Encyclopaedia Britannica to the size of a matchbox, might even store the whole printed record of the human race in one moving van. All the information that the most learned scholar needs could be filed in one end of a desk...
...Bush's "thinking" machine, which he calls "memex," would be a desk with a microfilm library inside and several translucent screens on top. In the library would be filed books, newspapers, notes, memoranda, photographs, etc. To refer to any item, a user would tap its code number on a keyboard-like dialing a phone number -and it would be projected on one of the screens. He could read page by page or skim. By means of dry photography (like facsimile), he could write marginal notes on the screen and have them reproduced on the microfilm...
Other Bush notions about mechanical aids to thought: a recording machine that would type when talked to, with a radio connection making it possible for the busy executive to record an idea for the microfilm library when he is away from his office; a camera the size of a walnut (worn on the forehead) which would take stereoscopic pictures in full color...