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Vannevar Bush

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As We May Think

Vannevar Bush

1945 · Computing · Essays

As We May Think is a speculative essay about the problem of intellectual abundance. Written at the end of World War II, it asks what scientists should do when their wartime energies turn toward peace and when the record of human knowledge has grown too large for traditional methods of indexing, filing, and retrieval.

medium medical relevanceScience / KnowledgeTechnology ModernityMemory / Time