I don’t know when the idea was first mentioned, but in conversations on the subject the essay As We May Think by Vannevar Bush is often referenced, from 1945.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/?single_page=true
I don’t know when the idea was first mentioned, but in conversations on the subject the essay As We May Think by Vannevar Bush is often referenced, from 1945.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/?single_page=true