As We May Think

As I read the Vannevar Bush article, "As We May Think", I thought about how I see the world being changed in the next 60 years in the same conceptual way Bush did. Vannevar Bush predicted a world where everyone is socially connected in the hopes that we would come to know and better understand each other. I think that the time has come and is rapidly evolving into a socially constructed computer network of people. In our ever changing society we use the internet, as Bush mentioned, as a gateway to connect with friends either through written words or video chat traveling at the speed of light. I believe that in the next 60 years we would become so socially connected through technology that we lose all efforts to communicate physically. We become submerged in a computer constructed virtual reality world that we forget what is real and what is computer generated. For example, people become connect instantaneously to friends on opposite sides of the world. As the two friends connect one or the other joins the conversation in another country, another atmosphere, and another reign of the world by way of virtual reality. Schools will become paperless as well as teacher-less, because all knowledge will be downloaded into a computer brain. We will become a world connected.