vannevar bush predicting the future:as we may think editors note: "he urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge."

writing about science in general, development, lost ideas, that got lost and have been found again, photography and, ... claro:

Two centuries ago Leibnitz invented a calculating machine which embodied most of the essential features of recent keyboard devices, but it could not then come into use. The economics of the situation were against it: the labor involved in constructing it, before the days of mass production, exceeded the labor to be saved by its use, since all it could accomplish could be duplicated by sufficient use of pencil and paper. Moreover, it would have been subject to frequent breakdown, so that it could not have been depended upon; for at that time and long after, complexity and unreliability were synonymous.

werd ich mir diesen wahnsinnigen text wohl endlich mal antun müssen. as they thought that our parents could think what we think in hindsight. Davor hab ich micht bisher gedrückt. Hoffentlich wirds nicht schlimm.