“The world has arrived at an age of cheap, complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it.”

Written in 1945 by Dr.Vannevar Bush, his article ‘As We May Think’ illustrates the importance of science in everyday life. It illustrates how far we’ve come since 1945, but also how much was available back then thanks to science. After the war, scientists were able to target there attention to technologies that would make everyday life easier, it’s in our nature to want to fine tune, improve and perfect what we have around us. It is because of this that Bush was able to predict future technologies, things that could not exist at the time but through the logical progression of science could be imagined.

Science is a fundamental and essential industry, it’s what makes the human species progress. What’s fundamental in science is the expansion and diverse nature of people working in that industry. It’s an industry that relies on the power of an enormous range of minds and in turn their co-operation to find, study, test and prove new discoveries. What we have available to us today is the sum of all work science has done for us in the past.

Bush points out that progession is also about having the right idea at the right time. You have to work with the materials that available to you. You could come up with an amazing new technology that will save some of the world’s problems and be hailed a genius, but if you don’t have the means to make that technology a possibility, what’s the point? You’ve only helped yourself, your not contributing to the lives of anyone else.

Communicating new ideas, naturalising new theories that have been tried and tested, exploring the depths and improving ourselves.