Vannevar Bush’s prediction of the what we would now call a hyper-text technology (i.e. the internet), a system modeled after the human mind, in which information is stored and linked according to the specific paths of reasoning (associations) desired by the user, is a remarkable conceptualization. The “Memex,” as Bush named this fictional machine, would function as an organic extension of human thought. Of course the fulfillment of this prescience, the internet, has exceeded Bush’s humble desire for a tool to simply assist in intellectual research.  The Memex, as he describes it in his 1945 essay, is a technology restricted to personal use and specific in its memory function to each user. But the internet goes beyond being coextensive with a single human user. Instead it constitutes a world consciousness of excesses where the absurd reaches of human behavior and its representation are being pioneered.  But does this mean that we are now reaching, as Heidegger contemplated, an end of “knowledge?” Does the internet contain human thinking; does its structure exceed the scope of history?