"As We May Think" in LIFE magazine.

BUSH, Vannevar. **A Glorious Intellectual Attempt at a pre-Internet Internet**

Data di pubblicazione: 1945

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BUSH, Vannevar. "As We May Think" in LIFE magazine, 10 September 1945, with the article appearing on pp 112-114, 116, 118, 121, and 123-4. Illustrated! Offered in the complete weekly issue of 144pp. Original wrappers. FINE condition. Vannevar (pronounced van-ee-var and van-nee-var) Bush was a flinty no-nonsense New Englander who was an organizational and mechanical genius who as a professor at MIT developed a remarkable analog computer that greatly advance computation capacities for solving differential equations. This was in the 1930 s, and even after creating an improved electromechanical version of the machine still chose the wrong way to go in the soon-to-materialize digital computer revolution. During WWII Bush was one of the most important Americans in the war effort, overseeing the entire scientific effort of the U.S. an enormous effort dispatched beautifully (and successfully). His importance in this regard is difficult to overestimate. But right there at the end of the war, when he was organizing a still-secret effort of controlling the spread of atomic weapons (before Hiroshima), Bush was also thinking about the future of the organization of human knowledge and memory. And published it, too, first in the popular Atlantic magazine in July 1945 (It was republished in a shortened version a few months later in September it remains to this day, according to an editor at Atlantic, one of the most often-requested reprints) where it reached a reading audience of millions. It appeared later in LIFE magazine on 10 September 1945 [the item offered here] where it no doubt reached millions of readers. The article, "As We May Think", outlined his idea for a device he called the MEMEX (memory and index), which compressed and organized all that its user could remember and whatever information would be obtained in the future via electromechanical apparatuses, and available with associative tracking between the microtext frames. So all manner of book and papers and reports and newspapers and images would be microphotographed and stored in a beautifully-indexed mechanical retrieval system where it would live with the information of others. There was also the possibility of real-time textual additions to whatever it was that was retrieved, the genetic precursor of hypertext. Bush s thinking has been deeply recognized (and also by the creators of the internet) as the intellectual grandparent of the modern internet. Codice articolo ABE-1705725865966

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Titolo: "As We May Think" in LIFE magazine.

Data di pubblicazione: 1945

Legatura: Soft cover

Condizione: Fine