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This is just such an incredible gem. Certainly required reading for everyone on HN. The original, that is.
by state 11y ago
This is just such an incredible gem. Certainly required reading for everyone on HN. The original, that is.
- benbreen 11y agoI find Vannevar Bush so interesting. There's lots of good material about him in the (excellent, albeit kind of depressing) Oppenheimer biography American Prometheus: http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/13787/american-prometheus/9780375726262/ http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/13787/american-prometheus/978...
- dredmorbius 11y agoI know a little bit about him -- his Memex of course, but also his role in creating what became the National Science Foundation in "Science, the Endless Frontier": Advances in science will ... bring higher standards of living, will lead to the prevention or cure of diseases, will promote conservation of our limited national resources, and will assure means of defense against aggression. - Vannevar Bush, "Science, the Endless Frontier" (1945) It's among the documents that set the way for technology to become a major national and economic initiative of the US.
- dang 11y agoI always thought he was in the line of political Bushes, but apparently not. A little Googling reveals that Vannevar is no more related to George than Kate.
- dredmorbius 11y agoNB, articles such as this (and, frankly, quite a few others) really make me wish HN offered more metadata on posts. Title, author, and date, at the least. A blurb as well (lede paragraph) perhaps. Microcontent matters. Though avoiding editorializing becomes a challenge.... Bush is among the particularly interesting tech pioneers.