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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Also the 'History of the Web' resource has created is such a valuable place to dig into specific parts of the historical timeline thehistoryoftheweb.com
Beautifully built as well.
