eens, and windows, and "hypertext", clickable links in text that could take you from document to document, the basis of the modern web - and Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, who made the source code of his creation publicly available, and never made a penny from it himself - it is very sad to reflect on the state of play of all things that constitute the cloud, in the context of the "modern democratic" concept - OF the people, FOR the People, By the PEOPLE... ... and [BE]ing drawn down the rabbit hole
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re housework; James Fallows’s prescient warning about the consequences of invading Iraq; or Ta-Nehisi Coates’s case for reparations.
The Atlantic’s Ideas section, which I oversee, aims to build on this rich legacy. The essays published in Ideas continue to challenge readers’ preconceptions. Yoni Appelbaum Senior Editor, The Atlantic
3 years before the United Nations made its Declaration of Human Rights President Roosevelt's science advisor, Dr. Vannevar Bush - published in the July edition of Atlantic Monthly - his IDEA of a wondrous machine which he called a memex. A machine which would enable you to search through information with incredible speed. You could pinpoint a thought in a book, leap to a related piece, pointing to a newspaper story and go on linking ideas until you built, in essence, a record tracing your own train of thought - one which you could pass along to friends and associates. All of which would be considerably closer to the way the MIND works.
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inct. Very rarely does one individual simultaneously make central contributions to all three — but Claude Shannon was a rare individual.
Despite being the subject of the recent documentary The Bit Player — and someone whose work and research philosophy have inspired my own career — Shannon is not exactly a household name. He never won a Nobel Prize, and he wasn’t a celebrity like Albert Einstein or Richard Feynman, either before or after his death in 2001. But more than 70 years ago, in a single groundbreaking paper, he laid the foundation for the entire communication infrastructure underlying the modern information age. Having established my own initial multi-media connessione twixt Science, Mathematics and engineering, I first became aware of Claude Shannon, having already become aware of his importance to Vannevar Bush as an exemplar example of the importance of AS WE MAY THINK
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Added by Michael Grove at 21:45 on December 23, 2020
steps, through a creaky old door, down a dimly lit
corridor; and here it is. [IT] was at the bequest of Dr. Vannevar Bush as the scientific advisor
to President Franklin Roosevelt, following Bush's secret R&D
meeting with Winston Churchill and the inventors of the 10cm
Cavity Magnetron, that the MIT Radiation Laboratory was
established to develop technologies for the detection of aircraft and
ships • capabilities that were sorely lacking in 1940 • in conjunction
with the British and their 10cm cavity magnetron, by means of the
basic structure of a program that would develop the radar technology
that subsequently had a decisive role in the Allied victory of the
second World War. …