Perspectives · History

Museum Essays

Reflections on pioneering concepts, iconic moments in computing culture, and the thinkers whose ideas anticipated our digital world.

Essay · Computing Visionaries

Dr. Vannevar Bush and the Memex

In 1945, Vannevar Bush conceived a microfilm desk to survey, search, and link human knowledge. His idea of associative “trails” became the conceptual precursor to hyperlinks and the World Wide Web.

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Essay · Creative Computing

Warhol, Blondie and the Amiga

At the Lincoln Center premiere in July 1985, Andy Warhol sat down with Debbie Harry to demonstrate Commodore’s revolutionary multimedia workstation, forever transforming digital art and video.

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Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry at the Amiga premiere