Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex

Contents: Introduction and Overview: The Age of Information and Secrecy An Institution and a Man for American Technology A Man for Technology and the Navy Little Science, Big Corporations and the Calculation Problem Little Libraries and Little Science: The Information Problem Machines for Secrecy: Perhaps The Machine That Wouldn't: The Comparator The Next Machine That Wouldn't: The Other Memex Disorganizing for War: The Comparator Fails, Again Microfilm Not at War Back to Electromechanics: Ultra and the Bombe Beyond the Bombe: Back to Hooper's Dream The Postwar Trauma: The Reappearance of the Other Memex A Machine for the Cold War and Big Science: Not for the Library