Vannevar Bush
An American inventor known primarily for role in the Manhattan project alongside the mystic physicist Robert Oppenhiemer. Bush's 1945 essay "As We May Think"[1] foreshadowed the development of both virtual reality and the lexicographical aspects of the internet (and the subsequent wave of information overload.[2]) Regarding the former, Bush claimed:
"The ultimate display would, of course, be a room within which the computer can control the very existence of matter. Atom by atom. A chair displayed in such a room would be good enough to sit in. Handcuffs displayed in such a room would be confining, and a bullet displayed in such a room would be, if fired, fatal."
