SUSAN PRIEBE SHARES INSPIRING ESSAY BY VANNEVAR BUSH
A friend who shares my passion for essays and who was amazed (as I fear he should have been) that I had never read the incredible "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush (since I like essays and am in the records profession), sent me the attached link, so that I might read it. (Vannevar Bush himself, I'm sure, would have been pleased, but not at all surprised that the article came to me in this fashion.) As folks in the records/information-management field, I think it is an interesting and important essay to read (it was written in 1945), if you've not had the opportunity before. It not only presents the strikingly impressive and accurate projections of one of the world's great thinkers, which is interesting in and of itself (much better reading than the Prophecies of Nostradamus in my estimation!), but it profoundly supports our critical role in the pursuit of making the world a better and potentially more peaceful place. The link to the article is www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm. I hope the portion quoted below will entice you to read the entire essay.
There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record. The inheritance from the master becomes, not only his additions to the world's record, but for his disciples, the entire scaffolding by which they were erected. --Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think," July 1945
Communications by and for the members of the Greater Seattle Chapter of the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA), International. The chapter's Web site is at http://www.armaseattle.org. Earliest messages are at the bottom; later ones were added above them. Read from the bottom up.
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