A few notes on Vannevar Bush's amazing essay, "As We May Think", from the 1945(!) @TheAtlantic :https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ …
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"Endless Frontier" was perhaps even more influential, cementing in place a discrete dichotomy between "basic research" and "applied research" that in my view unfortunately persists to this day. https://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nsf50/vbush1945.htm …
Greenberg has argued that TEF was less influential than it's often given credit for, that it's really a later myth. It's in his (excellent!) book "Science, Money, Politics": https://www.amazon.com/Science-Money-Politics-Political-Triumph/dp/0226306356/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522295045&sr=8-1&keywords=greenberg+science+money+politics …
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Ooo, buying a copy now.
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I read Greenberg Chapter 3, and you are right it is persuasive. I wonder what the source of the "linear model" actually is?
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