As We May Think

“Consider a future 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.”

This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. Now, for many, this appears to be approaching an end. What are the scientists to do next? For the biologists, and particularly for the medical scientists, there can be little indecision, for their war has hardly required them to leave the old paths. Many indeed have been able to carry on their war research in their familiar

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• Alicia Guo
• Jacky Zhao
• Anson Yu
• Bryan Chiang
• Benjamin Laufer
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• Bonnie Chin
• Ahmed Saheed
• Freeman Jiang
• Aryan Naik
• Phuong Do
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