Science--the endless frontier
by Vannevar Bush, United States Office of Scientific Rese, Rush Holt, United States Office of Scientific R · first published 1980
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…and 2ndary offerings. Honestly, that or like infrastructure is fine by me for things freshly printed money to go into. Investing in science always pays off in the long-run. Our leaders should re-read Science The Endless Frontier, by Vannevar Bush (https://nsf.gov/od/lpa/nsf50/vbush1945.htm)
on “San Francisco apartment rent prices are dropping fast” ↗This calls to mind the ever-relevant “Science: The Endless Frontier” [1] by Vannevar Bush, who more or less oversaw the entire American federal research enterprise during and post-WWII. He famously said that the best thing you can do for scientific progress is give scientists…
on “Please Fund More Science” ↗If you haven't read it already, it's really worth digesting the arguments Vannevar Bush made regarding funding basic science in 1945 (Science: The Endless Frontier) which resulted in the NSF as we know it being founded: https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/2023-04/EndlessFrontier75t... "A nation which depends upon others for its new basic scientific knowl- edge will…
on “National Science Foundation slashes basic science to fund new tech initiative” ↗…expansions occurred through and following major wars, including the US Civil Way (founding of M.I.T.), and the first and second World Wars, as well as the post-war / Cold War era, notably Vannevar Bush's "Science, The Endless Frontier" (https://nsf.gov/od/lpa/nsf50/vbush1945.htm) The Academic Major system began emerging in the early 19th century, though it would not really reach recognisable form (or be named) until after 1875. It…
on “Google's Plan to Disrupt the College Degree Is Absolute Genius” ↗…http://m.sciencemag.org/site/special/scicomm/infographic.jpg Much of the growth in publishing followed the explicit formulation that science and technology were the path to an endless frontier, explicitly stated in Vannevar Bush's 1945 report, "Science, the Endless Frontier", and accelerating through the Sputnik crisis, space race, and expanded academic funding of the 1960s-1980s. By the end of that period, academic research was increasingly privately funded and seen as…
on “Australian academics seek to challenge 'web of avarice' in scientific publishing” ↗> Vannevar Bush - head of military research during WW2, author of “As We May Think” and “Science, the Endless Frontier” - wrote a memoir late in life, Pieces of the Action. It was out of print and hard to obtain for a long time, but Stripe Press has brought it back in a new edition The author of the article collected…
on “Highlights from the Memoirs of Vannevar Bush” ↗…in steam propulsion), land grant universities (organised in the US under national acts of 1862 & 1890), and the modern research university (largely spawned by the Manhattan Project and Vannevar Bush's Science, The Endless Frontier (1945) and formation of the US National Science Foundation, and widely emulated in other countries). In the UK there is a distinction made between the Ancient Universities (Oxford, Cambridge, St. Andrews,…
on “Reddit is Fun will shut down on June 30th in response to Reddit API changes” ↗…definition used throughout was tied to a linear model of innovation. I've been able to trace this thinking to the 1920s, with a growth in popularity in the 1940s and 1950s. A prime example is Vannevar Bush's Science: The Endless Frontier. Although the report had some good outcomes, like leading to the establishment of the National Science Foundation, Bush's own autobiography acknowledged that this model was a disservice to engineers and…
on “What makes software development engineering” ↗…missiles, the first jet aircraft, penicillin, and of course, the atom bomb. Vannevar Bush was commissioned by FDR to write a proposal for a national scientific research initiative, which appeared as Science, the Endless Frontier. This ultimately replaced the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development with the National Science Foundation (following some not-atypical politicking and hurdles). The mood began to change…
on “Bell System Technical Journal, 1922-1983” ↗I know a little bit about him -- his Memex of course, but also his role in creating what became the National Science Foundation in "Science, the Endless Frontier": Advances in science will ... bring higher standards of living, will lead to the prevention or cure of diseases, will promote conservation of our limited national resources, and will assure means of…
on “As We May Think (1945)” ↗…ago -- "Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century" by G. Pascal Zachary that was quite good. The phrase "Endless Frontier" is a a reference to an essay that Bush wrote entitled "Science, the Endless Frontier" that argued for the continued federal funding of science after WWII.
on “Vannevar Bush: A Public Sector Entrepreneur” ↗