The article “As We May Think” by Vannevar Bush, brought up a lot of interesting points and ideas. I think that the article is right in pointing out that scientists are going to need to find something to do after major wars end. A lot of the major inventions have come out of either war or some involvement with the military. A lot of the article was also devoted to talking about how much research we have available to us, but how difficult it is to reliably access that all of that research. I found the idea of the “memex” to be pretty cool. Having a device that has room for lifetimes' worth of research would be incredibly awesome. Another thing that was really mind blowing was the section on compressing things onto microfilm. The fact that the entire Encyclopedia Britannica can be shrunk down, using microfilm, to the volume of a match box is incredible. While it seems almost impossible, this level of data compression will probably be necessary as more and more research is generated throughout the years. As more discoveries are made and new technologies are invented, the rate of new research being generated will probably become even faster than it is today.
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