As We May Think

Vannevar Bush
It is really interesting how Vannevar Bush was describing the use of technology and science to develop and recover knowledge for research and human development. It is kind of fun when he starts talking about the progress of different technologies, which we know pretty well right now. For example, when he refers to “the camera of the future,” he was describing the small digital camera we have right now. The ability to take 100 pictures, speed the process and not have problems with the resolution are some characteristics of the digital photo. It is unbelievable how he is describing the use of different media like photography, fax, computer, compression of information or content and voice recognition. All these technologies function in a computer currently or are in the process of development. He talks about the use of different media by a scientist to research and document the process. I thought this idea of multimedia was created in the last years . He describes the computers as a way to process information and to have access to it. He describes systems in which you are able to calculate different information and introduce or obtain new data using different electronic devises like scanners. He describes the hard disk, or memories we use now to save data. He describes the functions of a search engine. This is funny because we are talking about an article written in the 40’s.