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Read the paper carefully. Use the guidelines we discussed last quarter. Then answer the following questions?

• Who was Vannevar Bush Writing this essay for? Who did he want to persuade?
  
  
  
  
• What war is he talking about? What role of scientists is he alluding to?
  
  
  
  
• Whe he talks about Mendel's concepts being lost for a generation, what more general problem is he illustrating?
  
  
  
  
• What is a memex?
  
  
  
  
• What modern day phenomena, unknown to Bush in 1945, does his essay remind you of?
  
  
  
  

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