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  • Writer's pictureSophia Canfield

As We May Think Response

This was fascinating to read such an innovative article for 1945! It brought up so many nearly correct predictions, I just wonder how scientifically accurate some of the points truly ended up being. I would love to see if Alan Turing was inspired by this or parts of this was inspired by Turing!

These predictions all basically came true:


The Cyclops Camera



Microfilm




The Vocoder


The Thinking Machine


Memex



or



This piece also strongly reminded me of the film Desk Set (1957) when it began talking about the "supersecretary" and replacing jobs:




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