Thinking...Still?

Hello again. Well it's that time to post another blog, and about time if you ask me. I will be using this blog for my Electronic Communication class at NDSU, as well as posting thoughts about current horror films. For the class, I will be posting information relating to essays, or even thoughts that are presented in our class. If you are not a part of my class, check it out. I have to say that so far the class has been immensely enjoyable. And, now that I am done being a giant sized kiss ass, it is time to get down to business.
This week, we read the scientific essay "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush. This essay was written shortly after World War II, and dealt greatly with the transition of knowledge from one generation to another. Bush speaks about how we, as intelligent people you would think, should begin trying to store all the information that has accumulated over the years so that future generations will have use of it. He had ideas concerning new types of photography, transmitting information over phone lines, and the storage of information in "Memexes", a machine that is a hybrid of a macrophage and computer combined. He was remarkably close to many current technologies that exist, and he began thinking of these things in the 1940's. Well, the problem that has been proposed to our class is how will our society think in another 50 years?
Well, first off, I would like to say we will still be at war. The ability to be happy with the metaphorical inch given to you by people that have massive amounts of power is not a possibility. People are greedy, and probably always will be. The good news, I hope, is that one day people will eventually realize that both nuclear and biological weapons are not the answer to war. If that is a possibility in the future, I will definitely sleep better at night.
With that being said, technology will again make great advances. Computers, which are already becoming so cheap that most households have them, will only become better priced for more consumerism. When it is a proven fact that more people are computer literate than not, then more advancements will be made for interacting with both software and hardware. The Internet, much like it is already, will become the staple of society itself. Information, in the future, will never be barred for it is illegal to do so, and will thus create an easy to access information directory for all cultures.
Photography will also become much easier. The film used in older cameras will become obsolete, and digital cameras will completely take over the market. The memory cards available with these cameras will also be infinitely more spacious, and easier to work with. The actual printing of pictures may also become an extinct knowledge, since the society will be so Internet based there may be no need to create physical copies.
In the end, I can basically only speculate, as can anyone that has no ability of foreseeing or travelling in to the future. In fact, I hope that the world's future always stays a mystery because I am looking forward to every minute of advancement made by cultures around the globe, unless of course the world is going to end in about 24 hours. That would suck the big one, and I just made my self sad thinking about it.
Well, that is it from the perspective of a guy in Fargo, N.D. I hope that you will think about the possibilities of our world better than I. Anyways, I am going to go enjoy a good horror film... I hope anyways.