Somewhat tangentially, for those who are curious, Vannevar Bush was influential beyond his invention of the memex. As head of OSRD, he helped initiate the Manha

Somewhat tangentially, for those who are curious, Vannevar Bush was influential beyond his invention of the memex. As head of OSRD, he helped initiate the Manhattan Project and the National Science Foundation. Previously at MIT, he mentored one of his grad students, a guy you might have heard of named Claude Shannon. It's hard to think of a modern equivalent to someone so pivotal.