@bushWeMayThink1945
[!info] - Cite Key: @bushWeMayThink1945 - Link: 132407932.pdf - Abstract: “Consider a future device … in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
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Relevant / important¶
[!quote|#a28ae5] Highlight For years inventions have extended man’s physical powers rather than the powers of his mind
[!quote|#a28ae5] Highlight Two centuries ago Leibnitz invented a calculating machine which embodied most of the essential features of recent keyboard devices, but it could not then come into use
[!quote|#a28ae5] Highlight Babbage, even with remarkably generous support for his time, could not produce his great arithmetical machine. His idea was sound enough, but construction and maintenance costs were then too heavy.
[!quote|#a28ae5] Highlight Machines with interchangeable parts can now be constructed with great economy of effort.
[!quote|#a28ae5] Highlight A girl stroked its keys and it emitted recogniza ble speech. No human vocal chords entered into the procedure at any point
interesting foundation for modern text to speech. Interesting seeing people considering its uses when in modern times its mostly just for accesability options and not widespread
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[!quote|#a28ae5] Highlight whereupon scientific jargon would become still less intelligible to the layman.
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[!quote|#a28ae5] Highlight One of them will take instructions and data from a whole roomful of girls armed with simple key board punches,
notice one of the few mentions of women is a group of them doing a "simple" job and they are referred to as "girls" ew
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Disagree¶
[!quote|#ff6666] Highlight man’s
notice the use of "men" and "man" when referring to people in places of knowledge or authority. ew
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[!quote|#ff6666] Highlight The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a wal nut.
very out there idea but similar idea to modern phones where everyone carries around cameras if a bit more wacky
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[!quote|#ff6666] Highlight I t takes pictures 3 millimeters square, later to be projected or enlarged
[!quote|#ff6666] Highlight There is film in the walnut
didn't predict the digitalization of film
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[!quote|#ff6666] Highlight he cord which trips its shutter may reach down a man’s sleeve within easy reach of his fingers. A quick squeeze, and the picture is taken.
this is a very early-mid 1900s tech idea, strange to imagine a world where this existed. Interesting to think they couldn't come with the more convienient solutions we decided on in the end
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Agree¶
[!quote|#5fb236] Highlight Yet specialization becomes increasingly necessary for progress
[!quote|#5fb236] Highlight publication has been ex tended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.
[!quote|#5fb236] Highlight The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it.
[!quote|#5fb236] Highlight form a picture without development
[!quote|#5fb236] Highlight snap the camera and to look at the picture immediately
[!quote|#5fb236] Highlight For this reason there will come more machines to handle advanced mathe matics for the scientist.
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[!quote|#5fb236] Highlight Selection by association, rather than by indexing, m ay yet be mechanized.
this is essentially what digital sorting and searching of library databases did!
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[!quote|#5fb236] Highlight The process of tying two items together is the important thing
similar to the internet's form of hyperlinking
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Questions / confusion¶
[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight On a pair of ordinary glasses is a square of fine lines near the top of one lens, where it is out of the way of ordinary vision.
this is very interesting as its similar in concept to modern AR technologies like the google glass and facebook or "meta"'s new wearable technology
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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight Use chemically treated film in place of the glowing screen, allow the apparatus to transmit one picture only rather than a succession, and a rapid camera for dry photography results.
don't know if anything like this ever came into existance. Interesting seeing them compare it to film which ends up being the real solution and printing became an after thought to some degree
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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight The Encyclopaedia Britannica could be reduced to the volume of a matchbox
interesting seeing their ideas on how information would be condensed. again missed the idea of digitalizatoin
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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight the users of advanced methods of manipulating data are a very small part o f the population
interesting they never considered these systems would get more user friendly
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[!quote|#ffd400] Highlight They may yet allow him truly to encompass the great record and to grow in the wisdom of race experience.
what is race experience??
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