Sixty years later, the resemblance between a memex and a personal computer is clear.

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One piece of hardware, a mechanized private file library called a "memex, " has become a model for the MyLifeBits team.

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They fit the vision famously laid out by Vannevar Bush in a 1945 Atlantic Monthly article describing his Memex system.

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