Vannevar Bush supports a very interesting contention that never even crossed my mind in his discussion entitled ‘As We May Think”. By today’s standards, advances in technology allow us to control so much of the material aspects of our world, while human knowledge and the mind is still something that is so uncontrollable. Bush points out that while scientific exploits have pushed the boundaries of human physical capabilities, the methods of reviewing and transmitting the results of research are still generations old, and by now “totally inadequate for its purpose”.

People who conscientiously try to keep up to date with worldly events through habitual readings will often not be able to recall the information they learnt the previous month. This is because we still use the same means to record the ephemeral experiences of human thought and action as we did centuries ago.

Nonetheless, Bush rebukes this by adding that we are at a frontier and that this kind of technological advancement for the mind is imminent.