Memex

For this week’s homework I watched a video on YouTube called “Using Big Data in the Workplace.”  This video was about an online course that MIT offers to help people learn about ‘big data’.  The video is meant to be a preview to people who are interested in learning about this subject.  The video talks about how Vannevar Bush predicted a machine that is capable of computing information for humans.  It compares the machine the size of a desk that Bush came up with to how nowadays we have a smartphone that has just as much processing power, while being extremely small in comparison to the Memex Bush came up with.

Although this video wasn’t the most informing video about the Memex, it did catch my attention about the class.  The class will teach the students about how algorithms are used in big data and focus on the idea of big data and how it works.  It will also go in depth about how sharing through the Internet and computers is possible.  I think it would be interesting to take this class and learn about big data because a man was able to predict the era we are currently in over 60 years ago.  Technology fascinates me because the behind the scenes processes are way over my head, so it makes me wonder if the instructors of this class have any predictions about the future like Bush had.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAGT8kGQdao