As I read "As We May Think" I found myself writing a ton in the margins. Everything he predicted or described brought up in me some sort of modern technology. When he wrote about the department store and the ability to combine the information from the object, the seller, and the consumer into one I thought immediately of bar codes and credit cards. The personal library he thought of is our modern day laptop (or even a desktop computer). If you have a laptop and an internet connection you have in your posession much of the printed literature from the last half of the 20th century and on. When he described the ability of the "Memex" to search through images 10 pages at a time, or 100 pages at a time if he switches the buttons I couldn't help but be reminded of my camera which has that exact function. The most interesting thing that I was reminded of was Coverflow, which was sparked by his comment that he could arrange his files "just as though he had the physical page before him." It is important for new technology to both decrease the time and effort it takes to perform an action while still maintaining a familiar process. In class we were discussing the way that we have all been trained so that we must write our thoughts out to feel organized, instead of speaking them (this is why we have trouble with audio recognition technology) and we wondered whether we could ever cut this step out. So the question is, did Coverflow make iTunes closer to the physical task of playing music manually or had we already cut that step out? Before iTunes, a family/couple/individual would have to decide on a way to organize their music collection. Would it be by genre or would it be alphabetical? My iTunes simulates organization by any number of classifications with a simple touch. I would argue that coverflow is virtually useless because now that albums are not physically purchased, the cover art is no longer the symbol behind a song or collection of songs. In addition, it is more common to purchase a single song on iTunes, rather than an album. I think that the few years that iTunes dominated the music purchase/playing scene before Coverflow existed made all covers obsolete.