I am thinking about Bush, a guy way ahead of his time, a guy who helped create the most destructive force the world had ever seen in his age, the most interesting man on earth? not him, definately not him, but him..
In As We May Think, Bush decribes a world of many innovative things. Cameras so tiny that they can sit on our heads and take/stored hundreds of pictures. Machines that can do math ranging from simple addition and subtraction to complex calculus that Einstein couldnt do. Compression of information so compressed to fit an entire set of encyclopedias upon the size of a page, and be able to recall anything from them at any time instantaneously. And perhaps, his most inportant idea… The Memex…
But people, hold your horses and allow peace to settle again, is this amazing world that Bush described in such detail already among us? Think about, a tiny camera that holds hundreds of pictures and takes them instantly. Everyone has atleast one. These tiny machines of photography can be found everywhere from mobile phones, to your own personal camera…
The machines that can do every kind of math known and unknown to man? Even though Bush might have grown up using this, he thought of something like this back then..
Have you thought about the compression? Every computer uses it, every program you run has files stored on your computer and it pulls them out only when needed. Entire sets of encyclopedias, same concept of compression.
And finally… The Memex. aka The Computer. Youre reading this on one, and i typed this out on one. What more needs to be said?
Bush, a guy that lived in such an era, thought of living in such a futuristic era, not knowing this it was just around the corner in comparison to the age of the universe.
Warning: The following fun fact has nothing to do with the reading, and some may find it harmful to read. Read on if you dare. Just be careful to not have THIS happen to you… MUAHAHAHAHAHA. (evil laugh)
Fun Fact: Aum. It is said in the Hinduism Religion, that at the birth moment of the universe, as the universe expanded in nothingness, the sound from the outward explosion of the force came only one sound. Aum.
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