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Element 77
It finds what you'd want before you look.
recommendations · for you · up next
First known
Opened
1979Grundy: a library program builds a model of you as you talk, then suggests novels you might like. Elaine Rich, Carnegie-Mellon.
See also: Luhn's selective dissemination of information, IBM, Oct 1958.
“The task that was chosen for this experiment is to suggest to users novels that they might like to read.”
Tapestry (1992) makes you write the filter yourself, so it is closer to filtering; Grundy offered books unasked, e.g. 'HAVE YOU EVER READ EARTH ANGELS BY SUSAN CAHILL?'
Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.
- ReadingValue
Specimen № 77 — operate freely
Play Gran's party songs and watch your shelf. Then play one for someone else.
Fig. 77 — Recommend
000 readings · idle
Down the Find column
Read down and Find gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.
Bodies
The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Recommend takes.
- recommendations
- for you
- up next