VANNEVAR BUSH's article, "As We May Think" makes references to many many things from its time. technology advances that have happened, and already happened in our past and present. One of his curiosities is the process of photography. To instead have to deal with wet plates, to deal with dry plates. To use film as we know it today, was his future thought. I doubt he would have dreamed of even seeing cameras as we do now. Instead of cameras in our heads, we have them in our hands, pockets, or hats if you're clever. We use no film, only electrical impulses that are remembered on a wafer thin chip. Our cameras can be as tiny as a blood cell, or for practical use as large as a cassette tape.
Another ideal he's had is the thought of preserving human history. Of methods to catalogue our existence in the smallest state possible, and accessing it via connected links and routes.
I suppose this is a reference before his time to hyperlinks and the internet as a vast network of information.
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