User:Inge Hoonte/aswemaythink

Notes

Vannevar Bush, As We May Think

- makes me think of [hhtp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk Steampunk]

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- Situated right after WWII > Argues that all scholars can find their place in society again, except physicists. They left academics to make bombs, guns, etc.
- knowledge gets lost in the mass of the inconsequential (also, finding out something has existed for years, a movement, platform, whatever, without you knowing it... it's all out there and you can read about it and often you just don't)
- 'The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.'
- human operator
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