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    As We May Think

    Influential 1945 essay anticipating information society

    "As We May Think" is a 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush which has been described as visionary and influential, anticipating many aspects of information society. It was first published in The Atlantic in July 1945 and republished in an abridged version in September 1945—before and after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Bush expresses his concern for the direction of scientific efforts toward destruction, rather than understanding, and explicates a desire for a sort of collective memory machine with his concept of the memex that would make knowledge more accessible, believing that it would help fix these problems. Through this machine, Bush hoped to transform an information explosion into a knowledge explosion. Wikipedia

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    "As We May Think" is a 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush which has been described as visionary and influential, anticipating many aspects of information society. It was first published in The Atlantic in July 1945 and republished in an abridged version in September 1945—before and after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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    AS WE MAY THINK by VANNEVAR BUSH THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, JULY 1945----- This article was originally published in the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic Monthly. ... 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. ...
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  5. AS WE MAY THINK = by VANNEVAR BUSH As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. VaANNEVaR Busit has cotrdinated the ac- tivities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. ...
  6. A classic article by Vannevar Bush, president of Carnegie Institution of Washington, on the potential of information technology and its impact on human thinking. Read the original text, updated with hyperlinks and a menu, or download the ASCII version from Project Gutenberg.
  7. openlibrary.org

    As We May Think. Edit. An essay by Vannevar Bush, first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1945, and republished again as an abridged version in September 1945 — before and after the U.S. nuclear attacks on Japan. Bush expresses his concern for the direction of scientific efforts towards destruction, rather than understanding, and ...
  8. math.cmu.edu

    More on Politics & Society from The Atlantic Monthly.. More on Pursuits & Retreats from The Atlantic Monthly.. From Atlantic Unbound:. Flashbacks: "Prophets of the Computer Age" (October 1997) In light of new breakthroughs, two prescient Atlantic articles—Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" and Martin Greenberger's "The Computers of Tomorrow"—seem all the more remarkable.
  9. www2.cs.sfu.ca

    In 1945, Vannevar Bush, a scientist and director of research, envisioned a future of information technology and knowledge tools. He proposed the concept of memex, a device that allows associative indexing and hyperlinking of information, and foreshadowed the web.
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