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A prodigiously researched biography of Vannevar Bush, one of America’s most awe-inspiring polymaths and the secret force behind the biggest technological brea

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The former president of MIT discusses challenges and policy issues confronting academia, science and technology, and the world at large. In his fourteen years a

In 1945, Vannevar Bush, founder of Raytheon and one-time engineering dean at MIT, delivered a report to the president of the United States that argued for the i