A Prophet of the Futures Technology

      It is 1945 and Vannevar Bush is writing of what may come in the future with the evolution of man and science in his article "As We May Think". His editor writes "For years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind.Trip hammers that multiply the fists, microscopes that sharpen the eye, engines of destruction and detection are new results, but not the end results, of modern science. Now, says Dr. Bush, instruments are at hand, which if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages." As I am reading this article, I find that Bush is actually describing a machine that would accomplish what we call the internet today. 
        As he is describing the evolution of photography and what may one day come in the photography world, it is crazy to read when he talks about dry photography. Our digital form of photography today, is dry photography. But as evolution takes part and digital cameras advance in technology, will wet photography be lost for generations to come? Because the digital world is blowing up so fast and wet photography is no longer in demand.... will they stop making enlargers? Are film companies slowing down production because of the rise in demand for digital? Will artists be the only ones who know what it is like to physically develop their own film? 
         All these questions arise as I am reading about how the evolution of machines and science has brought us to where we are today. Bush is describing these processes that have evolved and will keep on evolving to bring us just that much more accessibility to the knowledge of the world. Our internet today is exactly that. It is a wealth of knowledge. Today one can pretty much find anything they want to know on the internet, with a simple search engine like google. How did Bush know we would evolve to this though, a digital world where almost everything is instant? 
       It is crazy to think that in 1945, Bush an American Engineer who played a political role in the development of the atomic bomb is describing the internet we use today in 2009. Although his description isn't exactly what our internet is he isn't that far off.I guess one could say that he was a prophet of his time.