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Referring back to centuries old designs for calculating
engines by Leibnitz and Babbage, which were never realized
due to insufficient technology in their time, Vannevar
Bush extrapolates the ramifications of technology in his
own time and predicts the nature of personal computers
and the Internet with amazing accuracy. He also predicts
the use of faxes, Polaroid photography, data compression,
and other advances. This essay is written in 1945 as an
argument for the use of new technologies in a peaceful
and transformative way, rather then a systematic and efficient
means of human destruction
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[from the site:]
"One can now picture a future investigator in his laboratory. His hands are free,
and he is not anchored. As he moves about and observes, he photographs and comments.
Time is automatically recorded to tie the two records together. If he goes into the field,
he may be connected by radio to his recorder. As he ponders over his notes in the evening,
he again talks his comments into the record. His typed record, as well as his photographs,
may both be in miniature, so that he projects them for examination."
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