I believe that we were asked to read this article because it is about the future of technology and how man receives, and stores information. Seeing as the age we currently live in is often referred to as the information age As We May Think is a fighting article for the class. What I found most interesting is how forward thinking Bush was for his time. Organizing massive amounts of information and consolidating it was most likely a far fetched idea in 1945. However humanity has been able to consolidate and recorded information just as Bush urged scientist to do after WWII. Humanity was able to do so 10 times the amount Bush could have possibly perceived. With the creation of the internet it is possible to find any type of information that you could possibly need.
This ability to find any kind of information and being able to archive your own personal information quickly and easily relates to what Bush had foreseen man to be able to do. For example we now have digital cameras that can take hundreds, even thousands of photos and quickly up load them on to a computer within a matter of minutes. In Bush’s day and age to took hours just to develop one picture. Not to mention the time it took to develop films. I would say that Vannevar Bush’s ideal about creating a way for massive amounts of information to be archived has been fulfilled to an extent he never thought possible.
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