down the annals of history... Bush (Vannewar--of course!)

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

As long as we are talking about historic visionary article, the original
article by Vannewar Bush in 1945, that is credited as presaging the
advent of Web (at a time where large warehoues were needed to house
calculator-qulaity computers) is very much worth reading...

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/tech.htm

Here is the blub on the article:

 In July, 1945, The Atlantic Monthly
published "As We May
Think," by Vannevar Bush, a former Massachusetts
Institute of Technology president and Director of the wartime Office of
Scientific Research and Development. In his article Bush urged scientists
to turn their energies from war to the task of making the vast store of
human knowledge accessible and useful. The "infostructure" Bush
sketched out -- including a proposal for what might be seen as a kind of
precursor to hypertext -- was destined to be realized in what we now know
as the Internet. "As We May Think," in fact, is generally
regarded by digerati as, if not the literal blueprint for the Net and the
World Wide Web, then one of its germinal seeds.

Rao

ps: There--I said something good about a Bush....