"Gods of our own machines"

I believe that in 50 years we will rely on computers even more than we do in our present day. I also think that computers will be even more compatible with our thought processes. As Vannevar Bush explains in "As We May Think", the human mind operates by association. He goes on to propose that some day computers will function the same way. I think that this idea has not only come to pass, but an be projected even further into the future. Eventually we will be able to successfully create the labyrinth that Jorge Luis Borges references and, as Janet Murray stated, become "gods of our own machines" (11). 

As time goes by technology becomes more and more integrated into our daily processes; therefore it is natural to think that the way we think about technology will become even more natural. As Murray explains, new media grows like  potato roots: expanding inward and outward at the same time without a beginning or an end. I think that as new media continue to grow, they will grow in such a way that it will become even more invaluable to us. 

Another idea of Bush that I believe is not only relevant to our technology today, but will continue to be pertinent in 50 years is the function of the "memex". Bush explains how "the memex has been envisioned as a means of turning an information explosion into a knowledge explosion" and goes on to state that "this remains one of the defining dreams of new media" (35).  Just as the advent of writing allowed us to free our minds of having to remember so much and enabled us to expand our thinking to more complex issues, I believe that within the next 50 years computers will continue to relieve that burden.