From 2015, it's depressing that the sea change he felt didn't materialize. This is a very good exposition of what Vannevar Bush was actually describing and how wrongly we've interpreted it. The comparison to junk food for our current model is apt and oft repeated. I feel it right now, the empty sugar rush of writing a comment and hoping for a reply or the drama of the up and down votes when I know I should be linking this article in to a personal datastore and expanding on the interesting parts and dissecting the clumsy ones but I don't have one that's easy to use and hard to lose. Let alone a highly polished one that incorporates the social reinforcement of seeing what others are building and getting feedback on my own work. I guess I'll just bookmark it and forget about it.