Hypermedia

Hypermedia has brought us into the future it has stream lined thought and allowed learned people the world over to work and collaborate in a way not before possible. As Vannevar Bush predicts in his article it allows for massive amount of information to become truly useful to the people who would need them. His example of Mendel's concept of the Laws of genetics which was lost for a generation certainly wouldn't have been the case if google was around to find it. Today we have an infinite amount of knowledge available to use a mouse click away. Any informational channel we could imagine can be found and explored through the resources of the internet and it only keep improving. As more reliable data makes its way online and improvements in search engines advance the Internet has become a collection of human knowledge that we can reference and learn from upon command... In other words its Vannevar's prediction and vision come true.

While it is very obvious as to how hypermedia has greatly advanced and helped our society through the rapid exchange of thought, what is its con? I defiantly agree with Anna's post in that the biggest problem with hyper media is that it can be extremely overwhelming when your search returns 2 million results. Where do you begin?.. and then another issue arrises in that of those infinite number of results what number is reliable fact and what part is falsified or part of some other internet garbage. Over all its obvious that hypermedia has been a great asset to humanity but it like everything else must be taken with a grain of salt.