to make the decentralized individual researcher into the very tool for the reintegration of social knowledge. He described the "memex" as a device, which would use individual, will as its sole indexing principle -- almost a paradigmatically anomic device.
             But in Bush's vision, these trails of individually linked knowledge would be woven into pattern, swapped and intermingled. Rather than simply kill one's self as a Durkheimian social scientist might, the researcher could go study ways of killing one's self and then trade it with another researcher for, say, nudie pictures. Anomie baseball cards. All very sci-fi sounding in 1947, but people eventually latched on to the idea, particularly after that quirky little Internet thing took off.
             Today the very fragmentation of society has long been perversely reintegrated into the soci
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