As We May Think is an essay by Vannevar Bush, first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1945. Bush argued that as humans turned from war, scientific efforts should shift from increasing physical abilities to making all previous collected human knowledge more accessible. The article was a reworked and expanded version of his 1939 Mechanization and the Record. The system, which he called memex, was described as based on what was thought, at the time, to be the wave of the future: Ultra high… (More on Aswemaythink)