Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think"

Please read the article here.

And the second page, after detailing the advents to the camera and then the voice recorder, the author alludes to a machine that can transcribe language by intention. He then writes, "For mature thought there is no mechanical substitute."

I can't help but wonder if he only says this to dispel the rising suspicion from his colleges that this is where he's heading. Of course this is what he's thinking- that mature thought will eventually be simulated. And that's the end of humanity as we know it... Strange he would straight deny something so plainly obvious.

End of page 2, "One of them will take instructions and data from a whole roomful of girls armed with simple key board punches, and will deliver sheets of computed results every few minutes." NERD PORN ALERT!!

I mean, heh. jeez. I guess this is where we can tell that this was written by a guy.

Page 4, section 6: "Selection by association, rather than indexing, may yet be mechanized. "

God this guy called it. in 1945. Jeeeeez.