the future?

"complexity and unreliability were synonymous" -Vannevar Bush

An invention is an invention despite the time or place, but its success depends entirely on how advanced the society of the time is --> the span of knowledge, the state of economy, the development of tools. Naturally, things advance as time does; the longer humanity exists, the more humans learn, discover, and create. Life just keeps getting bigger and "better." Tools and technology grow as we do, for tools and technology are human-made.

He talks a lot about compression... devices becoming smaller as technology advances. Like a microworld, nanoworld! Because as things become smaller, they become faster... resulting in a more efficient society. Ultimately, humans can get more done in an increasingly shorter amount of time.
super small + super fast = super advanced.
Efficiency is excellent for the economy.

He talks about selection, and the future of rapid selection.
About credit cards.... "[they] may be in miniature, so that they occupy little space."
It is important that time nor space is wasted; only use what is necessary, move along quickly.
(efficiency, efficiency, efficiency!)

Eventually, (not in his mind, at the time) everything will be digital; machines; robotic.
It's what the people want, to be the greatest we can be. From cavemen to robots. But I think the world as a newborn was just as great as what the future holds...

Hopefully it doesn't go the Terminator route (the negative side of that, all of the destruction and what not)... that would be unfortunate.

But as I read this article, all I could think was "Terminator." That's what I pictured his descriptions. Everything fast, compact, efficient... like a microchip in your brain that has everything you ever need. It sounds like madness to me, but at this rate...

I'd like to see our future world as a thriving, healthy, happy place..... but again, at this rate....

Well, we'll see.