As We May Think

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The technological revolution of the last 50 years is incredible. The ideas put forth by Bush have not only been realized, but exceeded. His “memex”, although not the size of a table, is available to everyone in the form of laptops and desktops. However, the camera, I believe, has had the most startling improvements. He speaks of a Polaroid camera as the next coming of God; “Often it would be advantageous to be able to snap the camera and to look at the picture immediately.” (p.39) He couldn’t even comprehend something like the digital camera. Sure he made reference to the ability to form digital copies from a developed picture, but the ability to have an LCD built in?

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