BCM206: Week 2
“…the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time…”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
With the income of new technology, we progress as a community. The invention of new tech causes a dramatic shift in the world’s perception of itself each time. One of the earlier times, when man was no longer physically needed to deliver a message in a sense – information was separated from the matter of man. When the telegraph was invented messengers we no longer needed, the job of switch board operated was created. Telegraph killed the messenger.
“They took the credit for your second symphony.” Vannevar Bush, created and wrote about this idea of a “memex” which sounds awfully similar to the inventions we all carry with us now; mobile phones. Though he didn’t mention every detail it contains, he theorized it existence. Idea’s are constantly getting created over ones that already exist, thus the death of one failed idea is the birth of another.
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