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So much is happening in the world of computers and so quickly that
no set of links could possibly do justice to the topic of computers and
the future. The following, however, are a few sites containing interesting
information on what is and what will come.
In 1945, the computer pioneer and presidential science
advisor Vannevar Bush published an article entitled "As We May Think" in
the Atlantic Monthly. Reading the article today, it seems in many
ways extremely antiquated. In typical forties fashion, for example, Bush
writes of the "girls" in the typing pool and the progress of "Mankind."
Bush may not have been a visionary in the matter of gender relations, but
his ideas about the future of technology proved prophetic. "As We May Think"
introduced the concept of a searchable electronic repository of knowledge,
a sort of "desk of the future" that Bush called the mimex. Half a century
later, a far more powerful version of that "desk of the future" exists.
We call it the Internet. Bush's article is an instructive lesson for futurists,
demonstrating how tomorrow's technology has a way of going far beyond today's
wildest speculations. The following links are to sites dealing with Vannevar
Bush and the 1945 article:
Tim Berners-Lee and the Creation of the World Wide Web
The inventor of the World Wide Web was Dr. Tim Berners-Lee of CERN, now
a professor at MIT and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (w3C).
The following links are to sites containing information about Tim Berners-Lee
and the creation of the Web.
