Vannevar Bush gives a clear image of where he imagines technology evolving. However, I had a difficult time following what he was saying at times because I do not know a lot of information about technology. Bush uses a lot of scientific terms to describe everything and I am not familiar with a good portion of them. While challenging at times it was still very interesting to see how so many of Vannevar Bush’s ideas are more less a reality now.
I also think Bush does do a good job of explaining the importance of expanding your thought to beyond being only based on arithmetic. I really like how he states that scientific reasoning is needed to compensate for what strictly numerical thinking lacks. He outlines this idea when he says;
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. The abacus, with its beads strung on parallel wires, led the Arabs to positional numeration and the concept of zero many centuries before the rest of the world; and it was a useful tool—so useful that it still exists.