# Vannevar Bush **Domain:** Research Administration / Information Systems **Doc Type:** Thinker and Administrator Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[As We May Think]], [[Memex]], [[Personal Computing]], [[Research Infrastructure]] --- ## Definition Vannevar Bush (1890–1974) was an American engineer and science administrator whose 1945 essay “As We May Think” proposed the Memex. ## Corpus Context Bush connects wartime research organization to associative information systems and [[Cognitive Exteriorization]]. The Memex is an ancestor of personal knowledge tools without being a digital computer as later understood. ## Relationships [[As We May Think]], [[Memex]], [[Personal Computing]], [[Research Infrastructure]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]