As We May (or may not) Think.
Holy shit, I haven’t exerted this much effort to read an article in a long time. (Exception: Art Ed. article I read at 4:00 PM today.) Even when nearing the end of this article, I was so distracted by the seemingly aimlessness of the language, that it was hard for me to connect all its elements to decipher a true central meaning. Eventually (by the last page,) I caught on: the subject is databases and making the contents as accessible as possible to the human mind. As the author took me on a nice trip through time, discussing past inventions as well as future possibilities, I was able to appreciate how non-scientific I am. And how I especially don’t possess a naturally mathematical mind. I do believe the most efficient way my mind can process a plethora of information is through thought association. So when the author starts writing about the memex and the idea of associative indexing, I think thats a bandwagon I would easily jump on.
