Dear Vannevar Bush

Wow.

So I think this article was discussing the influence of technology on information organization? It started with a little shot at innovation seemingly stating that information loses its specificity when put in order of alphabetical importance but later goes as saying:
"...his talk with a friend turns to the queer ways in which a people resist innovations,
even of vital interest. He has an example, in the fact that the outraged Europeans still failed
to adopt the Turkish bow."
To me this flip/flops to saying organization using tech should be adapted and is a pro rather than the con of losing specificity?

I know the overall goal of the reading is to compare early forms of information organization with the internet but it seems these days it is so much different. The statement "5000 pages of material a day it would take him hundreds of years to fill the repository, so he can be profligate and enter material freely" does not compare to the amount of info on the internet. And the way of finding info has changed too. You cant trust everything you see.

The internet is a shot in the dark and at the same time like fishing with dynamite.

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