Some Ideas and Resources to Stimulate Thinking regarding the perennial issue: What can I do with this?

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...The Shoulders of Giants...

"As We May Think", Bush, Vannevar;
This article was originally published in the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. The author speaks from the pre-dawn hours of the information age and anticipates the components of the emerging information/ communication technology. He envisions bold leaps forward in the domain of information retrieval (a pursuit, at that time, as yet unnamed): "associative indexing".

Innovations in Documentation (InD)

1995 New Paradigms for Using Computers: Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart - Biography
Douglas Engelbart - "Dreaming of the Future"
Douglas Engelbart - BI - Home Page
What he's doing about his dream these days...And how you can be involved.
DDJ Sep 00: "A Conversation With Doug Engelbart"
 
Ted Nelson and Xanadu

About "Specifications"

Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF
ietf.org rfc 2234 "specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, ..."

 

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