After reading about this hypothetical idea expressed by Bush's 1945 article entitled "As we may think" I have a new understanding of the internet and the society that existed before its creation and ubiquity. I went on to read an article titled "The Memex has been Missing a Database – and it’s finally here!" This article discussed how Bush was able to tell with great insight the inevitability of an information system that connects users and information easily and quickly. The article then outlined that there is still some gaps in the internet if it wants to completely represent "a flexible, personal database that lets us "remember” and organize things in as flexible and interconnected a manner as your memory" described by Bush. It was mentioned how typical database searches today sometimes exclude information from the deep web. It also fails to do much more than just spit out a list of links that users can explore. Ideally, Memex was supposed to store information and handle "all of the organization types simultaneously and seamlessly." This article highlighted the fact that the internet is still not complete in helping us with as many tasks as it could potentially assist with. Overall, Bush was a visionary in realizing how far technology, communication, and science have come. With this insight, he was able to predict a future that would change the way people live, work, and socialize today.
http://semanticrelationaldatabase.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/the-memex-has-been-missing-a-database-and-its-finally-here/
It was very interesting to see a different perspective on the Memex, and it made me think that maybe society should be attempting to achieve this ideal model of a Memex. The internet evidently has its flaws with overflows of information, and the Memex is a model that achieves reduction and control of information.
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