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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.
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.
Why is Japan, a country that looked economically invincible a
decade ago, stagnating, while long-moribund Ireland booms? What are
the qualities that will ensure the continued dominance of U.S.
culture, society, and business? In "The Diversity Advantage," G.
Pascal Zachary provides a provocative roadmap to the new
civilization arising out of sweeping shifts in the world economy.
He reveals - through vivid examples of individuals and institutions
- that the key new determinants for any nation's economic,
political, and cultural success are, surprisingly, a diverse
population and a "mongrel" sense of self. Roaming the globe,
Zachary shows how the rise of new forms of identity and migration
are helping to determine exactly who will win and lose in the next
century. Zachary's thesis isn't just about countries but about
individuals, too. In his tour of a new global civilization, we meet
a fascinating gallery of successful characters who possess an
intriguing mix of "roots" and "wings." Strong enough to know who
they are, they are nevertheless ceaselessly becoming someone else -
and in the process bestowing the gifts of creativity and social
harmony on the cities and states that they call home. Updated with
a new introduction by the author.
This “inside account captures the energy—and the madness—of
the software giant’s race to develop a critical new program.
. . . Gripping” (Fortune Magazine).
Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of
Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G.
Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary David Cutler, a picked band
of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives
to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Microsoft
a platform for growth through the next decade of development in the
computing business. Comparable in many ways to the Pulitzer
Prize–winning book The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy
Kidder, Showstopper gets deep inside the process of
software development, the lives and motivations of coders and the
pressure to succeed coupled with the drive for originality and
perfection that can pull a diverse team together to create a
program consisting of many hundreds of thousands of lines of code.
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