Vannevar Bush in his “As We May think” mentioned that: “A record if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.” In order to make the record become useful, he raised the “Memex” which is combined with memory and extender. This system or machine can help people to queries information from the library at any time, which is “an intimate complement to one’s memory expansion.”
This article made Bush hailed as the conceptual creator of “hypertext.”
Now, this great concept has already become true and used a lot in the field of computer science and IxD design. Blogging in 2003 makes people can use blogs and the internet to communicate and express themselves. Today’s App such as Tiktok or Instagram makes a more powerful system that is created based on the “Memex.” Through some more complicated interactive algorithms, these Apps are more than the memory extender, through analysis of users’ interests, TikTok will send content from similar categories to users to satisfy them.
Today, this system is not only a people’s memory extender, it even knows you more than yourself.
Indeed, The system may be helping us a lot more than we thought.
I agree with your idea that the system know us more than ourself, nowadays we are relying on the phone in daily life.
I’m always thinking about systems knowing my preferences and information, interesting to think about the process of how this has come about both technically and ethically.