As We May Think Response
- Sophia Canfield
- Sep 17, 2020
- 1 min read
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
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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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