Title
The Atlantic
Coverage
Concord, N.H.
Publisher
The Atlantic Monthly Company
Date
July 1945
Subject
Volume 176, number 1
Description
After leading the Manhattan Project that developed the Atomic Bomb, Vannevar Bush advocated for science to refocus its efforts away from destruction towards creating a vehicle to transform an information explosion into a knowledge explosion. This is the first printing of his visionary essay “As We May Think” in which he postulated and correctly anticipated a “memory machine” to achieve that end. The article is widely recognized as an introduction to today’s digital information age.