Monday, January 28, 2008
Would the personal computer be around in our generation if Vannevar Bush hadn't wrote about it in 1945?
In Bushs' "As We May Think" article back in 1945, he preconceived the unconceivable with the invention of a personal computer. Back then, like it states in the article, computers were only used for highly functioning miliarty analysis; a personal computer seemed absurd. But, because of his genius, he realized the possibility of one day having personal computers for everyday use. With his intellect and research, with the help of fellow colleagues, the computer we know of today exist. However, I'm not sure that we would be using this type of computer on a daily basis if Bush had not seen the future capabilities of technology. Say the personal computer notion did not come along until the mid sixties, I doubt we would have the same abilities using the computer we have today. Technology flows like a time-chart, and if the start of the time-chart gets pushed back, the ending does too. So because of Bushs' incredible insight, I can blog for this class.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment