Vannevar Bush
person
15 mentions
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first heard Oct 2020
last heard 15 Sep
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The first presidential science advisor who ran the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentGrant CameronAmerican Alchemy with Jesse Michels · “I Met The Head Of The Entire UFO Program!” - Grant Came... · 35:56 · 6d ago
…So that you have this connection actually with Vannevar Bush, and he's named in the Top Secret Memo.…
David BerryThe Vergecast · Lessons from the very first chatbot · 14:43 · 11 Aug
…Very large, actually, and quite hot because these machines were obviously burning a lot of electricity. But what I would say to you is there was also a kind of imaginary there as well. I mean, Vannevar Bush's Memex, Linklider, and lots of other people were already trying to think beyond the existing restrictions of the hardware of the time and dreaming of n…
Garry TanY Combinator Startup Podcast · Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence · 6:20 · 6 Aug
…Vannevar Bush called it the Memex, a machine that would be an extension of yourself and your brain.…
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