To be perfectly honest I read this article through not knowing what the author was talking about and what the point of it was exactly. The article contained a lot of technical terms which I had no previous knowledge about and I felt like I was drowning in the material.

After I completed the article I went through and skimmed through some of my classmates posts to try to get some insight into the text and was surprised that the point of the article was that it was the vision of today’s world that the author believed he would see. He describes the “memex” which is today’s computer. There are striking differences mainly in size and structure but the similarities in today’s laptops are also described. Bush predicted that we would have a device ran by buttons and levers that would project images on screens for the viewer. He also describes how data is stored and linked together by the user which is similar to the way our laptops operate today.

I found it difficult to process his vision and couldn’t see it personally until after reading other blogs so I am amazed that someone could have anticipated the future of technology fifty years before it becomes a reality.