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This is a survey of significant thinking on technology and society
published by The Atlantic.
In 1945, The Atlantic published "As We May Think,"
by
Vannevar Bush, a former Massachusetts Institute of
Technology president and Director of the wartime Office of
Scientific Research and Development. In his article Bush urged
scientists to turn their energies from war to the task of making
the vast store of human knowledge accessible and useful. The
"infostructure" Bush sketched out -- including a proposal for
what is now known as hypertext -- was destined to be realized
in what we now know as the Internet. "As We May Think," in
fact, is generally regarded by digerati as, if not the literal
blueprint for the Net and the World Wide Web, then one of its
germinal seeds.
In the May, 1964, issue of The Atlantic,
Martin Greenberger, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology's School of Industrial Management,
paid tribute to "the remarkable clarity of Dr. Bush's vision," and
then went on to make his own startlingly accurate predictions
about the future role that computers would likely play in our
society.