:re As We May Think

The reading was interesting and resonated with me for a few reasons. Primarily, it interested me because of the way this guy in the 1940s was imagining and thinking about the endless possibilities of the technologies that existed in his era, when in reality even his mind’s endless possibilities were short of the technology that we use every day in our daily lives. It was interesting to note how we use the same actions that he mentions in the text, taking pictures, recalling, sharing, and researching in our daily lives, yet the methods he describes make the actions seem diligent. Where in our daily lives, these features are used to complete simple things like homework assignments or even used in leisure activities like social media. Weirdly it reminded me of the idea that human nature doesn’t really change through time but the technology and tools that we use change. The author mentions the usage of films to be able to develop much more tools for the average person is an interesting idea because he was entirely right in the usage of creating user experience for various technologies. The switch from going completely analog to digital allowed for more information to be intuitively integrated into the same technologies allowing people to do more often with less. Similarly it was this difference that helped develop the internet from CLI to GUI.

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