The Atlantic

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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.