As We May Think >>
Vannevar Bush
Referring back to centuries old designs for calculating engines by Leibnitz
and Babbage, which were never realized due to insufficient technology in
their time, Vannevar Bush extrapolates the ramifications of technology in
his own time and predicts the nature of personal computers and the
Internet with amazing accuracy. He also predicts the use of faxes,
Polaroid photography, data compression, and other advances. This essay
is written in 1945 as an argument for the use of new technologies in a
peaceful and transformative way, rather then a systematic and efficient
means of human destruction
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[Intro] [from the site:] "One can now picture a future investigator in his laboratory.
His hands are free, and he is not anchored. As he moves about and
observes, he photographs and comments. Time is automatically
recorded to tie the two records together. If he goes into the field, he may
be connected by radio to his recorder. As he ponders over his notes in the
evening, he again talks his comments into the record. His typed record,
as well as his photographs, may both be in miniature, so that he projects
them for examination."
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