Reading Response - As We May Think

As I began reading the article this week, I felt lost adrift a sea of words and science that I am no longer familiar with. I was struggling as I tried to remember my high school science classes: Biology, Chemistry and Physics. I have some friends in California who I hesitated to ask their opinions of the topics covered in the first section of As We May Think. I don't know what they're specializing in within the science field, just that they are getting a degree in it and a few consequently getting their Masters as well.

Many of the objects everybody in the United States take for granted, myself included, are extremely complex but reliable which is very different from their initial inception. None of the masses truly think about how lucky we are to live in this time where everything in more compact, more durable, and more efficient than what use to be cutting edge. The original telephone? Now we have phones that are about the size of a credit card and have storage that puts original computers to shame and internet that is tens of times faster than the original speeds.