Ali Yahya(@alive_eth):"As We May Think” by Vannevar Bush may be the most prescient piece about technology ever written. He wrote it in 1945 when the word "computer" meant a woman doing arithmetic by hand. It's an essay about how we can use technology to think better. Talks about: – the beginnings of AI – neurotech implants like Neuralink (!!) – the web & hyperlinks – wikipedia – search algorithms – data compression – speech recognition – network routing algorithms – high level programming languages At the time, the transistor had not yet been invented, and there was only one working computer on Earth—Colossus at Bletchley Park—which was classified and nobody knew existed until the 70s.

2026.05.12 13:12

"As We May Think” by Vannevar Bush may be the most prescient piece about technology ever written. He wrote it in 1945 when the word "computer" meant a woman doing arithmetic by hand. It's an essay about how we can use technology to think better. Talks about: – the beginnings of AI – neurotech implants like Neuralink (!!) – the web & hyperlinks – wikipedia – search algorithms – data compression – speech recognition – network routing algorithms – high level programming languages At the time, the transistor had not yet been invented, and there was only one working computer on Earth—Colossus at Bletchley Park—which was classified and nobody knew existed until the 70s.