W4- As We May Think

The practice of the science idea really needs courage to imagine and describe. It is amazing that Vannevar Bush predicted the his future for the world in 1945 and compared to the development of the technologies now, it is almost on the track. Which element dose he base on in his foreseen? The needs or desires of man to communicate? That is a critical question to think about.
Vannevar Bush mentioned that the era of cheap complex device of great reliability had arrived. Take hypertext for example, it is more versatile but easy to connect all of the information in one platform. Over than 50 years ago, Bush pointed out the dreams of life in various views from hypertext, computers, the Internet, the World Wide Web (WWW), speech recognition, to online encyclopedia. Now here is a point, what is the next stage? From my personal expectation as a consumer, go mobile and digital family will be in practice in 10 years. There is an interesting CF produced by DoCoMo: http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/corporate/mobilelife/index.html