The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the Memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.

Basic scientific research is scientific capital.

Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.

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.

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.