Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) was an American engineer, inventor, and science administrator who led the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II. He helped coordinate military research, including radar and early atomic work, and became one of the chief advocates for federal support of peacetime science. His essay on associative information tools became a landmark in the prehistory of hypertext.
As We May Think is a speculative essay about the problem of intellectual abundance. Written at the end of World War II, it asks what scientists should do when their wartime energies turn toward peace and when the record of human knowledge has grown too large for traditional methods of indexing, filing, and retrieval.
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