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What would it take for a true personal knowledge base to generate the benefits envisioned by Vannevar Bush?

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              Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 2
              February 2011
              115 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/1897816
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