# Memex Projects at AI Tinkerers

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A hypothetical 1945 electromechanical desk device: Vannevar Bush's vision for a personal microfilm library using 'associative trails' (hyperlinks) to augment human memory.

Memex: a visionary 1945 concept by engineer Vannevar Bush (Director, OSRD) for an electromechanical desk. Bush proposed this 'mechanized private file and library' to combat information overload, storing an individual's lifetime of books and records on microfilm reels. The core innovation was 'associative indexing,' allowing the user to create and follow permanent, non-linear links—or 'trails'—between any two pieces of information, mimicking the human mind. Though never built, the Memex, detailed in his seminal essay 'As We May Think,' directly inspired the development of hypertext, personal computing, and the conceptual foundation for the World Wide Web.

- Official technology site: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Prompt-to-MCP](https://nashville.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_T32Ne5D9qyQ)

App Builders like Lovable and Bolt help you build beautiful website quickly. This demo is similar, only instead of an app Memex will create an MCP server from a prompt. And it will use MCP servers to do it. It's MCP-inception.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Nashville – June 23rd, 2025 — 2025-06-23 — Nashville
- Public talk page: https://nashville.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_T32Ne5D9qyQ

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