Its funny to hear Dr. Bush describe many products and technologies that do exist today, because his thoughts on how are rooted in technology trends of the 1940s. Vacuum tubes and film will make everything faster! I particularly enjoyed his insight about the differences between computer memory and human memory. I think that the internet has done quite a lot to facilitate our human style of associative searches. Most enjoyable to me was his thoughts about the electrical similarity between man and machine. Since then, many have speculated about the eventual human evolution into pure energy. There is even a 1998 anime series dedicated to the idea, “Lain.” I did not know these kinds of ideas went back as far as the 1940s.
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