25 years forward

In this year’s MEMEX, we want to get a deeper understanding of the human experience and its decisive impact on the next 25 years of man machine interactions.

In 1945, Vannevar Bush wrote: “A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory. “We especially want to understand now how perception, emotions, and implicit and explicit representation, will be addressed by advanced research methodology and how this will impact the modulation essential of human desires, hence the bizz and the art processes.

In other words, we would like to address the questions of the beauty of the surrounding technology landscape, its impact on providing good things, and especially with the upcoming introduction of AI and more probabilistic technologies, how this can be translated into concepts of trust and truth. If we think of Bush’s theoretical specification for a machine that supports communication and the optimization of memories in different media — optical, acoustic, tactile – to what extent do today’s AI models meet this requirement? Are they actually able to support our thinking (as we may think, as Bush supposed), our creativity, our entire experience?

Almost 80 years after the programmatic essay, 25 years after the founding of eye square, we see how the senses, the feelings  the knowledge of people are actually becoming the center of product design and advertising development, how it is no longer just a matter of achieving short-term success, but of bringing in human experience qualitatively. We want to look at this, especially at our Jubilee MEMEX, which is reminiscent of Vannevar Bush’s specifications in its name.

In this year’s MEMEX, we want to get a deeper understanding of the human experience and its decisive impact on the next 25 years of man machine interactions.

In 1945, Vannevar Bush wrote: “A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory. “We especially want to understand now how perception, emotions, and implicit and explicit representation, will be addressed by advanced research methodology and how this will impact the modulation essential of human desires, hence the bizz and the art processes.

In other words, we would like to address the questions of the beauty of the surrounding technology landscape, its impact on providing good things, and especially with the upcoming introduction of AI and more probabilistic technologies, how this can be translated into concepts of trust and truth. If we think of Bush’s theoretical specification for a machine that supports communication and the optimization of memories in different media — optical, acoustic, tactile – to what extent do today’s AI models meet this requirement? Are they actually able to support our thinking (as we may think, as Bush supposed), our creativity, our entire experience?

Almost 80 years after the programmatic essay, 25 years after the founding of eye square, we see how the senses, the feelings  the knowledge of people are actually becoming the center of product design and advertising development, how it is no longer just a matter of achieving short-term success, but of bringing in human experience qualitatively. We want to look at this, especially at our Jubilee MEMEX, which is reminiscent of Vannevar Bush’s specifications in its name.

Stay tuned for more details on our program!

What is the Memex Conference?

Memex Berlin Conference  is the leading conference for the harmony between man and machine. In a synthesis of tech, science and art – for a better  understanding of the human experience comes,  to change the digital to the people! And this year we will celebrate eye square’s 25 years of Human Experience

Our programm will follow shortly!