The article for as we may think talks a lot about science and then Vannevcar Bush who works for the United States government. Vannevcar Bush talks a lot about in the article about the scientific community and then ideas for people to be able to extend the human memory and the human ability to categorize, catalog, and recollect human information. A big piece of evidence that he provides is “Science has provided the swiftest communication between individuals; it has provided a record of ideas and has enabled man to manipulate and to make extracts from that record so that knowledge evolves and endures throughout the life of a race rather than that of an individual” (Bush 2). This is an important part because with every science showing that there can be improvements and more efficient ways to continue to evolve with every science is true.
On page number eight it talks a lot about “All this is conventional, except for the projection forward of present-day mechanisms and gadgetry. It affords an immediate step, however, to associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.” (Bush 8). In that section it talks about how the numbers, and then inserting names into the code name. It shows an example of what the memex is a bow and arrow. What Bush is trying to get at is that “A record if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted” (Bush 3). What he means that science should be extensively looked at and then past information should be stored in case if looked back upon. Overall, this article talks about science and how humanity is trying to extend and grow with pass data and examples from Europe and other countries around the world.
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