Google’s mission, direct heirs of artificial intelligence.
In The Google Way, Bernard Girard links google’s core mission to Vannevar Bush’s memex agenda.
There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends. The investigator is staggard by the findings and conclusion of thousands of other workers - conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, much less to remember, as they appear. Yet specialization becomes increasingly necessary for progress, and the effort to bridge between disciplines is correspondingly superficial. Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing re results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose… The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships… A record if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.