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For better or worse we are destined to live in a world devoted to modern science... What is the sane attitude of a scientist or layman? Absence of wishful thinking. No emulation of the ostrich.
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For better or worse we are destined to live in a world devoted to modern science... What is the sane attitude of a scientist or layman? Absence of wishful thinking. No emulation of the ostrich.
-- Vannevar Bush -
For better or worse we are destined to live in a world devoted to modern science... What is the sane attitude of a scientist or layman? Absence of wishful thinking. No emulation of the ostrich.
-- Vannevar Bush -
For better or worse we are destined to live in a world devoted to modern science... What is the sane attitude of a scientist or layman? Absence of wishful thinking. No emulation of the ostrich.
-- Vannevar Bush -
Going down a wiki-hole on Vannevar Bush, who would have loved the fact I have 300+ tabs open on my browser right now.
Sadly Vannevar, although we have access to Information, what if the data is of poor quality, and what if people are purposely putting false data in for nefarious ends?
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Going down a wiki-hole on Vannevar Bush, who would have loved the fact I have 300+ tabs open on my browser right now.
Sadly Vannevar, although we have access to Information, what if the data is of poor quality, and what if people are purposely putting false data in for nefarious ends?
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Going down a wiki-hole on Vannevar Bush, who would have loved the fact I have 300+ tabs open on my browser right now.
Sadly Vannevar, although we have access to Information, what if the data is of poor quality, and what if people are purposely putting false data in for nefarious ends?
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Going down a wiki-hole on Vannevar Bush, who would have loved the fact I have 300+ tabs open on my browser right now.
Sadly Vannevar, although we have access to Information, what if the data is of poor quality, and what if people are purposely putting false data in for nefarious ends?
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Trump Fired The Entire National Science Board. Here’s Why That Matters https://www.byteseu.com/1965369/ #FederalResearchFunding #NationalScienceBoard #NationalScienceFoundation #Science #SciencePolicy #trump #VannevarBush
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Trump Fired The Entire National Science Board. Here’s Why That Matters
SOCORRO, NM – 1999: These twenty-seven moveable antennas, known as the Very Large Array (VLA), take in radio…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #federalresearchfunding #NationalScienceBoard #NationalScienceFoundation #sciencepolicy #trump #VannevarBush
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Vannevar Bush wrote "As We May Think" in 1945. In it, he imagined a device called the "memex" that would store all of a person's books, records, and communications, and let them create trails of linked information between documents.
He was describing the internet, hypertext, and search engines decades before any of them existed.
If you want to understand where our entire digital world came from, this 80-year-old essay is still the clearest blueprint.
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Vannevar Bush wrote "As We May Think" in 1945. In it, he imagined a device called the "memex" that would store all of a person's books, records, and communications, and let them create trails of linked information between documents.
He was describing the internet, hypertext, and search engines decades before any of them existed.
If you want to understand where our entire digital world came from, this 80-year-old essay is still the clearest blueprint.
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Vannevar Bush wrote "As We May Think" in 1945. In it, he imagined a device called the "memex" that would store all of a person's books, records, and communications, and let them create trails of linked information between documents.
He was describing the internet, hypertext, and search engines decades before any of them existed.
If you want to understand where our entire digital world came from, this 80-year-old essay is still the clearest blueprint.
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Vannevar Bush wrote "As We May Think" in 1945. In it, he imagined a device called the "memex" that would store all of a person's books, records, and communications, and let them create trails of linked information between documents.
He was describing the internet, hypertext, and search engines decades before any of them existed.
If you want to understand where our entire digital world came from, this 80-year-old essay is still the clearest blueprint.
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@JensB @chronohh #trailblazer :: "There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of
establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record. The inheritance from the
master becomes, not only his additions to the world's record, but for his disciples the entire scaffolding by
which they were erected." – Vannevar Bush 1945 -
@JensB @chronohh #trailblazer :: "There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of
establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record. The inheritance from the
master becomes, not only his additions to the world's record, but for his disciples the entire scaffolding by
which they were erected." – Vannevar Bush 1945 -
@JensB @chronohh #trailblazer :: "There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of
establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record. The inheritance from the
master becomes, not only his additions to the world's record, but for his disciples the entire scaffolding by
which they were erected." – Vannevar Bush 1945 -
@JensB @chronohh #trailblazer :: "There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of
establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record. The inheritance from the
master becomes, not only his additions to the world's record, but for his disciples the entire scaffolding by
which they were erected." – Vannevar Bush 1945 -
“It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future”*…
It’s that time of year: predictions and forecasts and outlooks for 2026 on just about everything are everywhere. Scott Belsky‘s list is eminetly worth a read…
From talent arbitrage and “proof of craft” to hardware moats, ambient listening, homegrown software, and the end of waste – what should we expect to see in the coming year? What are the implications?…
“12 Outlooks for the Future: 2026+”
For a bracing list of “black swan” possibliities in the new year, see “15 Scenarios That Could Stun the World in 2026.”
But in the interest of starting this year on as positive a note as possible: “1,084 Reasons the World Isn’t Falling Apart.”
* an axiom attributed to Niels Bohr and Yogi Berra, among others
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As we contemplate what’s coming, we might recall that it was on this date in 1902 that Andrew Carnegie filed the incorporation papers for what he called the Carnegie Institution of Washington– which we now know as Carnegie Science. The first of 20 not-for-profit institutions he founded (in addition to his other philanthropy, e.g., funding over 3,000 public libraries), Carnegie Science conducts fundamental research both directly and in collaboration with other organizations (mostly research universities). In its 120+ year history, it has contributed scores of foundational discoveries– e.g., the expanding universe, the existence of dark matter, transposons (“jumping genes”)– across multiple scientific disciplines. Its principals have won multiple Nobel Prizes (and myriad other awards) and have contributed to scientific and technical policy (e.g., Carnegie President Vannevar Bush) and to scientific education.
The 1902 Articles of Incorporation (source) #2026 #AndrewCarnegie #art #CarnegieInstitutionOfScience #CarnegieInstitutionOfWashington #CarnegieScience #culture #education #history #policy #politics #predicitions #prediction #Science #Technology #VannevarBush -
Getting some Bell, Book & Candle vibes on #VannevarBush 's take on #stenography in 1945 lol
"The other element is found in the stenotype, that somewhat disconcerting device encountered usually at public meetings. A girl strokes its keys languidly & looks about the room & sometimes at the speaker with a disquieting gaze. From it emerges a typed strip... Later this strip is retyped into ordinary language, for in its nascent form it is intelligible only to the initiated."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ -
Getting some Bell, Book & Candle vibes on #VannevarBush 's take on #stenography in 1945 lol
"The other element is found in the stenotype, that somewhat disconcerting device encountered usually at public meetings. A girl strokes its keys languidly & looks about the room & sometimes at the speaker with a disquieting gaze. From it emerges a typed strip... Later this strip is retyped into ordinary language, for in its nascent form it is intelligible only to the initiated."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ -
Getting some Bell, Book & Candle vibes on #VannevarBush 's take on #stenography in 1945 lol
"The other element is found in the stenotype, that somewhat disconcerting device encountered usually at public meetings. A girl strokes its keys languidly & looks about the room & sometimes at the speaker with a disquieting gaze. From it emerges a typed strip... Later this strip is retyped into ordinary language, for in its nascent form it is intelligible only to the initiated."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ -
Getting some Bell, Book & Candle vibes on #VannevarBush 's take on #stenography in 1945 lol
"The other element is found in the stenotype, that somewhat disconcerting device encountered usually at public meetings. A girl strokes its keys languidly & looks about the room & sometimes at the speaker with a disquieting gaze. From it emerges a typed strip... Later this strip is retyped into ordinary language, for in its nascent form it is intelligible only to the initiated."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ -
Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush -
Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush -
Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush -
Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush -
The forgotten 80-year-old machine that shaped the internet – and could help us survive AI
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The forgotten 80-year-old machine that shaped the internet – and could help us survive AI
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The forgotten 80-year-old machine that shaped the internet – and could help us survive AI
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The forgotten 80-year-old machine that shaped the internet – and could help us survive AI
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Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #VannevarBush #Knowledge
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #VannevarBush #Knowledge
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #VannevarBush #Knowledge
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #VannevarBush #Knowledge
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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Needed Vannevar Bush's quote on how secrecy in science works against national security in a discussion today, so I created a slide for it.
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Needed Vannevar Bush's quote on how secrecy in science works against national security in a discussion today, so I created a slide for it.
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Needed Vannevar Bush's quote on how secrecy in science works against national security in a discussion today, so I created a slide for it.
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Needed Vannevar Bush's quote on how secrecy in science works against national security in a discussion today, so I created a slide for it.
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Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush -
Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush -
Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush -
Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush -
Update. "The Rise (and Fall?) of the National Science Foundation"
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-national-science-foundation
(#paywalled)"The #Trump administration’s assault on the #NSF represents precisely the kind of political interference [#VannevarBush] sought to prevent — one that threatens not only scientific progress but also the very foundation of academic freedom."
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Update. "The Rise (and Fall?) of the National Science Foundation"
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-national-science-foundation
(#paywalled)"The #Trump administration’s assault on the #NSF represents precisely the kind of political interference [#VannevarBush] sought to prevent — one that threatens not only scientific progress but also the very foundation of academic freedom."
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Update. "The Rise (and Fall?) of the National Science Foundation"
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-national-science-foundation
(#paywalled)"The #Trump administration’s assault on the #NSF represents precisely the kind of political interference [#VannevarBush] sought to prevent — one that threatens not only scientific progress but also the very foundation of academic freedom."
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Update. "The Rise (and Fall?) of the National Science Foundation"
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-national-science-foundation
(#paywalled)"The #Trump administration’s assault on the #NSF represents precisely the kind of political interference [#VannevarBush] sought to prevent — one that threatens not only scientific progress but also the very foundation of academic freedom."
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Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush -
Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush -
Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush -
Our ineptitude in getting at the record is largely caused by the artificiality of systems of indexing.
-- Vannevar Bush -
@dpiponi On the other hand, “As we may think” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think) is from 1945. There was something in the air at that time!
I would think that the war and the technological progress caused by it (including the atom bomb) let some people develop an extreme techno-optimism.
And Arthur C. Clarke's idea of using geostationary satellites for telecommunication (https://www.wired.com/2011/05/0525arthur-c-clarke-proposes-geostationary-satellites) is also from 1945!
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@dpiponi On the other hand, “As we may think” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think) is from 1945. There was something in the air at that time!
I would think that the war and the technological progress caused by it (including the atom bomb) let some people develop an extreme techno-optimism.
And Arthur C. Clarke's idea of using geostationary satellites for telecommunication (https://www.wired.com/2011/05/0525arthur-c-clarke-proposes-geostationary-satellites) is also from 1945!
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@dpiponi On the other hand, “As we may think” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think) is from 1945. There was something in the air at that time!
I would think that the war and the technological progress caused by it (including the atom bomb) let some people develop an extreme techno-optimism.
And Arthur C. Clarke's idea of using geostationary satellites for telecommunication (https://www.wired.com/2011/05/0525arthur-c-clarke-proposes-geostationary-satellites) is also from 1945!
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@dpiponi On the other hand, “As we may think” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_We_May_Think) is from 1945. There was something in the air at that time!
I would think that the war and the technological progress caused by it (including the atom bomb) let some people develop an extreme techno-optimism.
And Arthur C. Clarke's idea of using geostationary satellites for telecommunication (https://www.wired.com/2011/05/0525arthur-c-clarke-proposes-geostationary-satellites) is also from 1945!
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Bush proposed creation of the US National Science Foundation, in response to letter from FDR asking Bush
“…how to turn the ‘unique experiment of team-work and cooperation in coordinating scientific research and in applying existing scientific knowledge’ during WWll to the peaceful pursuit of scientific knowledge after the end of the war.”
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Bush proposed creation of the US National Science Foundation, in response to letter from FDR asking Bush
“…how to turn the ‘unique experiment of team-work and cooperation in coordinating scientific research and in applying existing scientific knowledge’ during WWll to the peaceful pursuit of scientific knowledge after the end of the war.”
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Bush proposed creation of the US National Science Foundation, in response to letter from FDR asking Bush
“…how to turn the ‘unique experiment of team-work and cooperation in coordinating scientific research and in applying existing scientific knowledge’ during WWll to the peaceful pursuit of scientific knowledge after the end of the war.”
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Bush proposed creation of the US National Science Foundation, in response to letter from FDR asking Bush
“…how to turn the ‘unique experiment of team-work and cooperation in coordinating scientific research and in applying existing scientific knowledge’ during WWll to the peaceful pursuit of scientific knowledge after the end of the war.”
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Context is incredibly important.
People read AWMT by Vannevar Bush in the Sept 1945 issue of LIFE — the most popular US magazine — less than two month after the Trinity test, and a month after Hiroshima.
Bush reported directly to FDR as the director of WWII R&D — including the Manhattan project. “He urges that men of science should then turn [from war] to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge.” [Atlantic, July 1945]