As We May Think
Vannevar Bush's essay "As We May Think", first published in Atlantic Monthly in July 1945, argued that as humans turned from war, scientific efforts should shift from increasing physical abilities to making all previous collected human knowledge more accessible.His article described something in many ways like today's World Wide Web (in fact, he had features still not elegantly available).
External links:
- http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/
- The article itself (http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm)
- Bush Symposium Web Site (http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/graphics/html/info/vannevar_bush.html)
- Bush Symposium Information Farm (http://www.eastgate.com/squirrel)
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possible we may lose; since we have shuffled and cut, let's even
it is an accident of fortune.
MEL. No, marriage is rather like a game at bowls: fortune indeed
farthest, are together, but the game depends entirely upon judgment.
CYNT. Still it is a game, and consequently one of us must be a
to be laid out in an entertainment. What's here, the music? Oh, my
us by the way. [Musicians crossing the stage.] Pray let us have
SONG.
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Cynthia frowns whene'er I woo her,
Much she fears I should undo her,
Thus, in doubting, she refuses;
Age and wrinkles will o'ertake you;
When the power must forsake you:
To be past, yet wish fruition.
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[To them] SIR PAUL PLYANT and LADY PLYANT.
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up.
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hold you contented.
CYNT. Bless me, what makes my father in such a passion? I never
coming upon me by inflation, and I cannot submit as formerly,
angry, that's my pleasure at this time.
MEL. What can this mean?
LADY PLYANT. Gads my life, the man's distracted; why, how now, who
marry you for? Am I not to be absolute and uncontrollable? Is it
matter of this concern?
SIR PAUL. It concerns me and only me. Besides, I'm not to be
shall command Sir Paul; but when I am provoked to fury, I cannot
tigers, lambs with lambs, and every creature couple with its foe, as
but remember I have a curtain-lecture for you, you disobedient,
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