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September 17, 2017 at 5:39 pm #1085Phoebe SiegelParticipant
- In his article Bush explains different kinds of technology to the reader and emphasizes the rapid evolution of technology that is being faced in the world as more and more information becomes available to a person. In Bush’s opinion this ridiculous abundance of information is too overwhelming for a person to be able to benefit from because they won’t be able to find the important information in all the research and they would have a very difficult time connecting information to other information to create a resource that is useful to users.
- Bush’s idea is to create a system which will store all of the information from the past and future that has developed over the years. This way the information will always be able to be found if a person needs it. He also proposes that the system would create a way to organize information so that it is easier for a person to see connections in the information and to just understand the information in general.
September 14, 2017 at 5:02 pm #1073Phoebe SiegelParticipant- Before reading the chapter I would have thought of a computer as a set of formulas and long scripts that create a page for a reader. This still is partly true but after reading the chapter I was surprised by how mathematical based the creation of the computer was. After seeing how Turing went about developing the computer it seems as if it started almost as a math problem and that he developed the idea of the computer almost accidentally through the formulas he created. I found it interesting that he did not have the invention of a computer in mind when he was working on the project.
- I found that my idea of information changed slightly after reading the chapter because of my new understanding of codebreaking and the algorithms and studies that surround the idea of codebreaking. I found it very interesting to read that a hundred letters chosen at random could contain more information than a thousand carefully chosen letters. I think this was interesting because it definitely confused my view on information. I would think that the more information and the more carefully chosen that information is the more you would get out of this but this was not necessarily true. I found it interesting also to learn how often an algorithm must be changed in order to keep information private and I began to realize how many algorithms and formulas go into creating the information that we can get on computers today.
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