Bush claimed the web’s initial idea through memex, a machine recording collection of data, and the process of searching the data through examination. Bush also claims that the human mind is not like a machine: recognizing a single item gets spread by associated thoughts carried out in a web of the trail that is called the brain.
His legacy affected personal computer, hypertext, and web, organizing information and associative context, which allowed humans to participate in the web, which was limited by certain people in the past. Web blog was a game-changer for global access to the internet, adopting Bush’s foresight. Web blogs allowed people to be authors who have granted access to produce an electronic record and be searchable on the web.
The ongoing legacy of Bush and web blog continues and affects the current social media. Instagram is one of them: posting an image with a record of the associated human’s mind or location. The author publishes a package of the image with description, and people react to the media with comments and likes represented by a heart icon. The expansion of the internet and web blog allowed this collaboration of the author and reader, creating the small chats through comments that dismantle the author and reader’s barrier. Its accessibility and interaction still provide the authors with the authorization to filter information by themselves. However, that accessibility also has potential fear, which concerns privacy. The modern memex system allows access from a third party and potentially manipulate the users.
I agree, sometimes it’s really hard to control that the system is already collecting information.
Absolutely true. The modern system indeed raises the risks of being hacked!
I agree with you. Many users are really worried about privacy and information being leaked by the Internet. Therefore, current webpage will use “Do you Accept Cookie?” to trying to prevent users from sharing their information without knowing it. Although this kind of convenience has not been solved perfectly up to now. But I hope that users’ privacy can be maximized in the future.
I like how you address the potential of privacy issues. Companies are able to use the data you have on the phone and app and you wouldn’t even know about it.
Great points! It’s kinda like Bush had this really hopeful vision of shared knowledge and resources and instead it’s been turned up to 100 and it’s like a twisted version of what he really wanted.
You made some great connections above, I really liked how you broke down instagram into a more simple “machine” like application.