G. Pascal Zachary is a writer and educator who has taught at Arizona State University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century (1997). His other books include Showstopper: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft (1994) and The Diversity Advantage: Multicultural Identity in the New World Economy (2003). Zachary's writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Mother Jones, Wired, and Technology Review.

Foreword, by Neal Lane
Introduction, by G. Pascal Zachary
Editor's Note
1. Preface to Operational Circuit Analysis (1929)
2. The Key to Accomplishment (1932)
3. The Inscrutable Past (1933)
4. The Warren Weaver Letters on the Future of Computing Machinery (1933)
5. The Persistent Fallacy of the Absent-Minded Professor (1933)
6. Stimulation of New Products and New Industries by the Depression (1934)
7. The Businessman in This Situation (1934)
8. Against Isolation and for Application of Science to Warfare (1935)
9. The Engineer and His Relation to Government (1937)
10. The Qualities of a Profession (1939)
11. Innovation, Enterprise, and Concentration of Economic Power (1939)
12. Letter to Herbert Hoover on "The Whole World Situation" (1939)
13. Letter to Archibald MacLeish on "Adequate Handling of Large Masses of Photographs" (1940)
14. "Leave No Stones Unturned in Research" (1940)
15. "To the Things of the Mind": Memorandum Regarding Memex (1941)
16. Science and National Defense (1941)
17. Edison and Our Tradition of Opportunity (1944)
18. Salient Points Concerning Future of Atomic Bombs (1944)
19. The Builders (1945)
20. Teamwork of Technicians (1945)
21. As We May Think (1945)
22. "Letter of Transmittal" to President Harry Truman (1945)
23. "Summary" to Science, the Endless Frontier (1945)
24. Soldiers and Scientists in Partnership (1946)
25. Organizing Scientific Research for War (1946)
26. The Danger of Dictation of Science by Laymen (1946)
27. Should Scientists Resist Military Intrusion? (1947)
28. Science, Democracy, and War (1949)
29. How Science Works, or Doesn't, Under Totalitarianism (1949)
30. The Essence of Security (1949)
31. The Atomic Bomb and the Defense of the Free World (1951)
32. A Few Quick (1951)
33. On Leadership and Management (1951)
34. "The Timing of the Thermonuclear Test" (1952)
35. "The Search for Understanding" (1953)
36. The Peak Wave of Progress in Digital Machinery (1954)
37. "An Opportunity Was Missed" to Halt Nuclear Arms Race (1954)
38. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1954)
39. Some Things We Don't Know About Solar Power (1954)
40. The Future of Digital Information: Storage, Retrieval, Search, and the Construction of Knowledge (1955)
41. Faith and Science (1955)
42. Why Do We Pursue Science at All? (1955)
43. The Pioneer (1957)
44. "Those Who Talk Frequently Become Ignored" (1957/1959)
45. On Sputnik (1957)
46. "All-out War Unthinkable to Any Sane Individual" (1959)
47. Machines to Free Men's Minds (1960)
48. On Space Exploration: The James Webb Letters (1961-1963)
49. The Other Fellows' Ball Park (1961)
50. Two Cultures (1962)
51. Automation's Awkward Age (1962)
52. What Is Research? (1963)
53. The Art of Management (1967)
54. "On the Difficulty in Vietnam" (1967)
55. Do Birds Sing for the Joy of Singing? (1970)
56. The Revolution in Machines to Reduce Mental Drudgery (1970)
Acknowledgments
Index