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  1. Mar 2022
    1. A list of all the questions that Vannevar Bush poses in the piece:

      • What are the scientists to do next?
      • Of what lasting benefit has been man's use of science and of the new instruments which his research brought into existence?
      • Is this all fantastic?
      • Will there be dry photography?
      • What would it cost to print a million copies?
      • The preparation of the original copy?
      • To consider the first stage of the procedure, will the author of the future cease writing by hand or typewriter and talk directly to the record?
      • Is it not possible that some day the path may be established more directly?
      • Might not these currents be intercepted, either in the original form in which information is conveyed to the brain, or in the marvelously metamorphosed form in which they then proceed to the hand?
      • Is it not possible that we may learn to introduce them without the present cumbersomeness of first transforming electrical vibrations to mechanical ones, which the human mechanism promptly transforms back to the electrical form?
      • True, the record is unintelligible, except as it points out certain gross misfunctioning of the cerebral mechanism; but who would now place bounds on where such a thing may lead?
      • Must we always transform to mechanical movements in order to proceed from one electrical phenomenon to another?