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#271 Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)

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Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century

Vannevar Bush's influence on American science and technology was so great that the 20th century may not yet produce his equal. The individual to me is everything he wrote, I would restrict him as little as possible. Suspicious of big institutions, Bush objected to the pernicious effects of an increasingly bureaucratic society long before such complaints became conventional wisdom.

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