 The article claims that magnetic tape would be central to the creation of a modern Memex device.The erasable quality of the tape is of special significance, as this would allow for modification of information stored in the proposed Memex.In the article, Bush stresses the continued importance of supplementing "how creative men think" and relates that the systems for indexing data are still insufficient and rely too much on linear pathways rather than the association-based system of the human brain.