Today we make the record conventionally by writing and photography, followed by printing; but we also record on film, on wax disks, and on magnetic wires. Even if utterly new recording procedures do not appear, these present ones are certainly in the process of modification and extension. *Bush observes that the technologies of his time have not yet been pushed to their limit. **The vinyl record has since been replaced multiple times by inventions like the compact disc and then the MP3. However, certain disc jockeys still find the control they get from working with vinyl is preferable. The vinyl emulation software Serato Scratch Live now allows disc jockeys to use their vast yet portable MP3 collections while still retaining the vinyl control records. When Brady made his Civil War pictures, *Archived. the plate had to be wet at the time of exposure. Now it has to be wet during development instead. In the future perhaps it need not be wetted at all. Often it would be advantageous to be able to snap the camera and to look at the picture immediately. *Digital photography now allows for these luxuries. As the scientist of the future moves about the laboratory or the field, every time he looks at something worthy of the record, he trips the shutter and in it goes, without even an audible click. *This scientist of the present future has his camera–or more likely his smart phone–set to silent. If he did desire an audible click, that classic novelty option is still available. His hands are free, and he is not anchored. *Bluetooth headset with voice control. As he moves about and observes, he photographs and comments. Time is automatically recorded to tie the two records together. If he goes into the field, he may be connected by radio to his recorder. As he ponders over his notes in the evening, he again talks his comments into the record. His typed record, as well as his photographs, may both be in miniature, so that he projects them for examination. *I currently have all of these abilities in my pocket on the different applications on my iPhone. The Encyclopoedia Britannica could be reduced to the volume of a matchbox. *The "volume of a matchbox" could now hold a digital copy of Encyclopedia Britannica many times duplicated. A library of a million volumes could be compressed into one end of a desk. If the human race has produced since the invention of movable type a total record, in the form of magazines, newspapers, books, tracts, advertising blurbs, correspondence, having a volume corresponding to a billion books, the whole affair, assembled and compressed, could be lugged off in a moving van. *The internet fits in my pocket.
