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Vannevar Bush wrote of a “scholar’s workstation” called a “Memex,” which was “a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
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Bush’s new organization, eventually called the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), would create the opportunity Bush sought for scientists, engineers, and inventors at universities and private labs to explore the bizarre.
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“As We May Think,” published in the Atlantic Monthly
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Like Vannevar Bush, who insisted, as described in chapter 1, that he “made no technical contribution whatever to the war effort,” Catmull saw his job as minding the system rather than managing the projects.