Basic Scientific Research Is Scientific Capital.

It Was Through The Second World War That Most Of Us Suddenlyappreciated For The First Time The Power Of Man's Concentrated Efforts To Understand And Control The Forces Of Nature.we Were Appalled By What We Saw.

Consider A Future Device For Individual Use, Which Is A Sort Of Mechanized Private File And Library. It Needs A Name, And, To Coin One At Random, "memex" Will Do. A Memex Is A Device In Which An Individual Stores All His Books, Records, And Communications, And Which Is Mechanized So That It May Be Consulted With Exceeding Speed And Flexibility. It Is An Enlarged Intimate Supplement To His Memory.

There Will Always Be Plenty Of Things To Compute In The Detailed Affairs Of Millions Of People Doing Complicated Things.

The Difficulty Seems To Be, Not So Much That We Publish Unduly In View Of The Extent And Variety Of Present Day Interests, But Rather That Publication Has Been Extended Far Beyond Our Present Ability To Make Real Use Of The Record.

There Has Been A Great Deal Said About A 3,00-mile High-angle Rocket. The People Who Have Been Writing These Things That Annoy Me, Have Been Talking About A 3,000-mile High-angle Rocket Shot From One Continent To Another, Carrying An Atomic Bomb And So Directed As To Be A Precise Weapon Which Would Land Exactly On A Certain Target, Such As A City.