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sometimes I think about names that in one context or another I hear a lot, without really looking into what they are or having personal experience with them, beyond a very superficial inference that it's a road/a person/a publication.
the other day I had a therapy appointment at a different location which meant I finally drove on a road that I've seen the exit for probably 50+ times and heard the name of in the context of radio traffic reports (some mostly tied to the exit location rather than the road itself) probably hundreds of times, having lived in the area since the first year of the millennium, yet I'd never actually set eyes on it. A few years back I finally used the Norwood Lateral (back when the Foodbank warehouse was located off of it), and a far longer time ago we first had cause to use the... Ronald Reagan [Cross-County] Highway that I'd previously heard of.
...but I bring this up actually because I have listened a lot to Advent of Computing in the past few years, and I only actually looked into Vannevar Bush and "As We May Think" in probably the past month or two, after hearing about that article as a major contribution in Sean Haas's view of computing history, and it was interesting to gain the actual context of ...kind of a precursor to the prevalent if perhaps underappreciated phenomenon of hypertext. (that is, text with links. And then I felt I needed to add a few of them to this post because well...) Now that aspect has been rattling around in my head now and then while browsing the internet.
(also, most of the time when Sean Haas has said its name, it's evoked in my mind the phrase "as you may think", which is more of a ...rhetorical flourish, and one that could equally be rendered "as you may believe". But on reading about the article, the topic is actually the process of thinking and the nature of memory.)
the other day I had a therapy appointment at a different location which meant I finally drove on a road that I've seen the exit for probably 50+ times and heard the name of in the context of radio traffic reports (some mostly tied to the exit location rather than the road itself) probably hundreds of times, having lived in the area since the first year of the millennium, yet I'd never actually set eyes on it. A few years back I finally used the Norwood Lateral (back when the Foodbank warehouse was located off of it), and a far longer time ago we first had cause to use the... Ronald Reagan [Cross-County] Highway that I'd previously heard of.
...but I bring this up actually because I have listened a lot to Advent of Computing in the past few years, and I only actually looked into Vannevar Bush and "As We May Think" in probably the past month or two, after hearing about that article as a major contribution in Sean Haas's view of computing history, and it was interesting to gain the actual context of ...kind of a precursor to the prevalent if perhaps underappreciated phenomenon of hypertext. (that is, text with links. And then I felt I needed to add a few of them to this post because well...) Now that aspect has been rattling around in my head now and then while browsing the internet.
(also, most of the time when Sean Haas has said its name, it's evoked in my mind the phrase "as you may think", which is more of a ...rhetorical flourish, and one that could equally be rendered "as you may believe". But on reading about the article, the topic is actually the process of thinking and the nature of memory.)
