Vannevar Bush was a scientist, engineer, writer, researcher and did very radical work in analog computing. He imagined portable computers with the capability of associative thinking, which was in a way a gateway to thinking about "hypertext" except he called it associative trails. This imagined portable device that he imagined was given the name of Memex. The Memex would be capable of collecting, storing, and retrieving information in a personalized way that catered to its user's informational needs. Therefore it would function as an extension of memory.
If I would have to predict the future of computers, I would definitely give a lot of thought to the notion of online identity along with real world identity of humans. We already spend so much time on social platforms, inevitably creating and morphing our identities which become real to others doing the exact same.
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