Computer to throw at the wall
So whenever you need to vent some frutstration and don’t want to ruin the real computer, here’s the solution, a computer-shaped stressball.
They can also be customized with your personal message or commercial, and the more you buy the cheaper they are, so if your dog develops a taste for them you might want to stock up here. I guess you’ll have to, because minimum quantity is a hundred…
As we may think
Vannevar Bush
I started out reading and after a little I went back to check when this article was written. I found that it was published in 1945, now the text started to make much more sense. Later I noticed, that on top of each page there is a timeline, which in this case pointed at 1945… 
This text made me think about how we have the need to categorize and order things. We have so much information and it is essential to file it and sort it. It also reminded me of little kids, or people in general growing up and connecting the synapsis. We build a spiderweb in our brains, make connections, build chunks in order to make sense and sort information.
Language learning for example works the same way nowadays. Foreign Languages are taught in chunks, we don’t learn single words anymore, we learn them in different contexts, so they are already put in little drawers or categories to help us store and later access them.
It is amazing how much they already knew 60 years ago and how much more was developed in the 60 years after that. It is just mind blowing what we can do with new Media today. And even 60 years ago to them it must have been just as astonishing.
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