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Handwritten codexes or printed books transformed society by allowing users to preserve and transmit information. Today, leather-bound volumes and illuminated manuscripts are giving way to animated image maps and hot links. Vannevar Bush's memex has inspired the World Wide Web, which provides users with vast information resources and convenient communications. In looking to the future, we might again transform society by building genexes --generators of excellence. Such inspirational environments would empower personal and collaborative creativity by enabling users to:
Ben Shneiderman (1998) studied this question.