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The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

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Vannevar Bush
Age: 84 †
Born: 1890
Born: March 11
Died: 1974
Died: June 28
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