Vannevar Bush was a real man. He lived from 1890-1974. He was an amazing man, but in no way did he really have this fictional conversation with this fictional host of this fictional television show twenty-seven years after his death. Vannevar Bush did write "As We May Think," and did describe the "memex." The portions of the fictional interview that appear as quotations in the text are taken from Bush's essay to simulate what he might have said. You can find the essay online at the Atlantic Monthly. While the contents of this website hope to add insight to the discussion of today's World Wide Web and Bush's memex, they are intended to inform and entertain - not represent the actual statements of Vannevar Bush. The photographs used throughout these Vannevar Bush pages are used with permission from MIT. Much thanks to the kind people at MIT Museum for granting permission for the use of the photographs.

Please enjoy the website and think of what you might expect Vannevar Bush to say about today's World Wide Web.

The Vannevar Bush interview on Futurists Revisited was created and written by Chris Holstrom for an Information Design course at the University of Washington. It was then contributed to Lazarus.

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