The Best Magazine Articles Ever

A list. As We May Think by Vannevar Bush from the July 1945 issue of the Atlantic is the first candidate. An excerpt:

Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort ofmechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin oneat random, "memex" will do. A memex is a device in which an individualstores all his books, records, and communications, and which ismechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed andflexibility. It is an enlarged intimate...