The influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of
twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly
vast. As a leading figure in the creation of the National Science
Foundation, the organizer of the Manhattan Project, and an adviser
to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman during and after World War II,
he played an indispensable role in the mobilization of scientific
innovation for a changing world. A polymath, Bush was a cofounder
of Raytheon, a pioneer of computing technology, and a visionary who
foresaw the personal computer and might have coined the term "web."
Edited by Bush's biographer, G. Pascal Zachary, this collection
presents more than fifty of Bush's most important works across four
decades. His subjects are as varied as his professional pursuits.
Here are his thoughts on the management of innovation, the politics
of science, research and national security, technology in public
life, and the relationship of scientific advancement to human
flourishing. It includes his landmark introduction to Science, the
Endless Frontier, the blueprint for how government should support
research and development, and much more. The works are as
illuminating as they are prescient, from considerations of
civil-military relations and the perils of the nuclear arms race to
future encyclopedias and information overload, the Apollo program,
and computing and consciousness. Together, these pieces reveal Bush
as a major figure in the history of science, computerization, and
technological development and a prophet of the information age.
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