THE GODFATHER

VENNEVAR BUSH

But if Bush's historic influence is forgotten or misunderstood, his technical inspiration is not. Even before his death in 1974, many on the cutting edge of computing considered him the godfather of the information age, a gifted seer into the future wrought by computers and electronic networks. Doug Engelbart, who invented the mouse and helped launch the Internet's forerunner, the Arpanet, credits Bush with awakening him to the potential of computers to manage information, not just crunch numbers. For Engelbart and a legion of other leading-edge engineers, Bush's 1945 Atlantic Monthly article, "As We May Think," is a foundation text. "It's our bible," says San Francisco software designer Z. Smith, who was handed a copy a decade ago as a fledgling engineer at Xerox PARC.

https://www.wired.com/1997/11/es-bush/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush

Connected Germany and the military industrial complex (Godfather of the information age) to Corporations, Cernegie, Rockefeller.

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