#media/article Author:: Vannevar Bush
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“Mendel’s concept of the laws of genetics was lost to the world for a generation because his publication did not reach the few who were capable of grasping and extending at. This sort of catastrophe is undoubtedly being
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repeated all about us as truly significant attainments become lost in the mass
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of the inconsequential”
- too much information to process, hard to separate signal and noise Article focusing on what scientists should go look at post-war
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main inventions highlighted:
- cyclops camera: phone camera
- microfilm: memory disks
- vocoder: transcription
- thinking machine: logic -> conclusions. gpt-3 is close?
- memex: file material by association
- “The human mind does not work that way. It operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain. It has other characteristics, of course; trails that are not frequently fallowed are prone to fade, Items are not fully permanent, memory is transitory. Yet the speed of action, the intricacy of trails, the derail of mental pictures, is awe-inspiring beyond all else in nature.”
- Like dynamicland
- person who makes a “trail” on why turkish bows were superior to western bows and then brings it up as an example for how people resist innovation
- can even record the trail through and give it to friend
- person who makes a “trail” on why turkish bows were superior to western bows and then brings it up as an example for how people resist innovation