Thinking...

The article was very interesting - It's always almost surreal for me to become immersed in the predictions of someone from history. The fact that their predictions are about the time I live in is eerie when their predictions have come true, and amusing when they're off the mark. It's like reading Orwell's 1984, and resting assured that his vision of the future hasn't become a reality... yet.

I think the value in reading something like this is that it reminds us to look at our current environment with the same critical eye. In my opinion, the predictions and assumptions are not too much more than looking at the existing technology and thinking about it logically, critically. Bush says himself, "It would be a brave man who would predict that such a process will always remain clumsy, slow, and faulty in detail."

I guess for me, what I get out of this is that we should all be thinking critically of the technology around us - what we use, what we think we will use, what may fall by the wayside, and what may become a major piece of the future landscape moving forward. 10 years ago electric cars were a joke, and now hybrids are everywhere. Instead of being immersed in the technology we use to the point where we can't imagine where it will - or could - go, we should be able to see it from a critical point of view. It'll be us, after all, who takes it to it's next level.