I am not fully convinced that Vannevar Bush was not psychically inclined. He basically envisioned modern digital computers and the go-pro camera 50 years before they were invented and that is incredible. Bush argued that the mind works by networking and making connections. I definitely take Bush’s side over Carr’s. I find that I understand things much better if I make connections and associations. I think that maybe we did train our brains to think in a linear fashion but the Internet allows us to take in information in a way that is much more natural.

Socrates was against writing things down, he believed that it would negatively impact ones memory and that those of higher intellect should just memorize everything. I don’t think Socrates could have ever imagined just how much information there would be out there. That being said it makes a lot of sense that the most important modern innovation is in the way we store information. Military uniform sizing was an ingenious way to get an idea of the countries population and to begin turning people into data. I am going to assume that that was a precursor to the census. Living in a militarized society obviously has a lot of negative aspects but the military does seem to be key to the rapid development of technology.