The article "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush is famous, and repeatedly referenced in the major of Mass Comm. For the most part it describes loosely a lot of the technology we take for granted today as new and revolutionary ideas of the future... which at the time is exactly what they were. He managed to describe ideas of connecting knowledge that today is incorporated into almost every single website in existence, and spoke of storing things like it would be an incredible feat to collect a set of books into something the size of a matchbox while now that is constantly being done by elementary schoolers with a thumb drive.
While the article itself isn't exactly thrilling and I feel he rambled on about specific and very uninteresting parts of his ideas for way too long, it's fascinating to look at the time it was written and not only what he was predicting, but how far things have come even since then. From there looking forward even further to what could happen to the next several years becomes a very exciting prospect.
The article was introduced with his speaking about people developing tools and producing a great deal of information without the ability to consume it, however, and ironically the main advancement he was trying to describe which ended up sounding like today's computers has ended up making it even more difficult to do just that. Computers hold a huge ammount of data along with all the other storage devices running around, and they share data with other computers, and other people on computers via the internet. Between linked sites, random google surfing, blogs, newspapers, rants, independant websites, and all the other virtual venues out there it's now in truth impossible to stay updated on everything even within one small interest area. Along with that it's getting progressively more difficult to tell fact from fiction sometimes.
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