“As We May Think” Essay -- Article Analysis

It is obvious that supply viewed and approached the dissemination of schooling as precisely as much a science as physics or engineering, and that he was a scientist early and foremost. (He also resembled Max von Sydow, but that is beside the point.) Throughout As We May Think, the comparisons be there, and he speaks very highly of the sciences and the benefits they have brought our world. He recognized that the sciences and their results ar only(prenominal) as good as the ability scientists have to repose their findings and share them with the rest of the world, and that at the time the article was written, the methods for the recording, storage, and retrieval of that information were severely insufficient. The way information storage and retrieval could benefit libraries just for the sake of librarianship seemed almost an after aspect to him, however, and he mentions libraries just a a few(prenominal) times in the entire document. The real purpose of his work seemed to be b ringing to light how the scientific community desperately needed burst ways of handling its vast amounts of current and future information so that future scientists could most greatly benefit. His answer to this shortcoming was the memex.Bush thought of everything in terms of how it could be improved using not only the methods that were in existence at the time, but also all the possibilities that could be developed in the future. In this article, he amazingly predicted the invention of the Polaroid camera, which was introduced by the founder of the Polaroid Corporation just two years after the publish of this article. ( vociferous Camera, 2010) He used the musical arrangement by which the telephone system worked at the time to explain how future information retrieval systems efficiency work. In Bush... ...inking include XML (Extensible Markup Language) and RDF (Resource Description Framework).Bush was indeed a pioneer in his time. Though development of his envisioned memex was never achieved during his lifetime, more of the ideas behind it have played a huge role in our technological advances. Thus Vannevar Bush has forever earned a tramp in technological history.Works CitedBush, Vannevar. (1994, April). As We May Think. Retrieved January 14, 2010, from http//web.mit.edu/STS.035/www/PDFs/think.pdf Instant Camera. (2010, January14). Retrieved January 14, 2010, from Wikipedia http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_cameraMemex. (2009, December 12). January 16, 2010, from Wikipedia http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex Vannevar Bush. (2005, November 6). Retrieved January 14, 2010, from Internet Pioneers website http//www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/bush.html