-Bush was organizer of the Manhattan Project that created the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
-Worked with President Eisenhower to create the "iron triangle" or the "military-industrial complex"
-Article was published in the Atlantic and Life after the attacks on Japan
-He asks: "What should scientists who have been working for the war do now that it is over?"
-Science has increased our control of the "material" world through communication, security, etc. We have become reliant on these technologies.
-Bush described a "memex," a computer like futuristic instrument - something that would change "information" into "knowledge" -- one would easily be able to access information/records instantaneously. This, in affect, anticipates the modern computer.
-He stresses his hope that advances in technology should help the world, not hurt it
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