Memex

• In his 1945 essay, "As We May Think", Vannevar Bush states that in order for a record (of anything, ie. writing, photography...) to be useful, it has to be constantly updated, stored, and actually used.  He says that there is more information out there than can be made use of and sorted through. 
• I agree.  Even now, with the internet, it is so easy to get lost in the mazes of information available to us.  Bush called these paths to which we find relevant information "trails", and the people that worked on creating these trails, through association and dissassociation "trailblazers".  I  feel that the more organized something is, the easier it will be to find the exact item you are looking for.  Frantically digging through mounds of unrelated items every single time you need to find a particular item, is a waste of time.  When things are well organized, and labeled neatly, they are much easier to find.  I think that the more 'trailblazers' work at creating useful paths, in accessible ways, the easier it will be to find information and use it. 
• Vannevar Bush makes the point that logical reasoning in itself is not enough, and that creative thinking is required in order to catalogue the vast expanse of knowledge and history that we possess.  Characteristics of certain ideas, images, etcetera should be taken into consideration when orgainizing the collective catalogue. 
• Very true.  A simple game of word association will give you an idea of how the human mind works not only logically, but creatively as well.  Some connotations many of us might share.  Many, I'm sure, though will be widely varied and dependant upon the individual's past experiences and predisposed state of being.  It is a neverending task to map out the associations of thoughts.
• Another fascinating idea that Bush brings up is the future possibility that we might be able to intercept our thoughts somehow and automatically record them.  That we would be able to pick up vibrations, similar to a telephone wire being tapped.  He notes how a typist transmits words without having to necessarily look at what they're doing.  It is simply a practiced transmission.
• The fact that Bush relates this sort-of telepathical transmission to technology that we use everyday but were once considered far-out ideas makes the process actually seem feasible.  I think that one da we very well may be able to relate information telepathically, or through some kind of interception and maybe even through our eyes, broadcast.  Bush's thinking was ahead of his time.  The memex as the early computer is proof that technology starts with fantastical ideas.