Apparently all great luminaries have to come with complex moral baggage
Turns out Vannevar Bush - the fellow who helped corral multiple political powers & financial interests together to build the internet, and then proposed the visionary notion of a Memex in "As We May Think...
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...also worked on the Manhattan project building the atomic bombs, and then went on to found Raytheon.
Just great.
Enjoying getting a bit more foundational web history in while reading 'The Innovators' - maggieappleton.com/the-innovators
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I would say this is partly why he wrote As We May Think. The world in a world war must have looked very different to him
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True, all morality is contextual to specific times and places. Not suggesting the moral norms of right now are legitimate grounds to make judgements of someone's research decisions in 1940. Just not something I expected...
Intro of AWMT situates it well as a response to the war