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  1. Jan 2024
  2. arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
    H.G. Wells’ “World Brain” is now here—what have we learned since?
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    1. chrisaldrich 02 Jan 2024

      https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/world-brain-wells-welles-orwell-and-the-role-of-information-in-society/

      read H. G. Wells world brain
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  3. Dec 2023
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    World Brain - Wikipedia
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    1. chrisaldrich 28 Dec 2023

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Brain

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    H. G. Wells and the "World Brain" or "World Encyclopedia" : History of Information
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    1. chrisaldrich 28 Dec 2023

      H. G. Wells and the "World Brain" or "World Encyclopedia" : History of Information by Jeremy Norman

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    2. chrisaldrich 28 Dec 2023
      In his ideas for a "mental clearing house" Wells was probably influenced by "Die Brucke" and its Goals for a World Information Clearing House.
      Wilhelm Ostwald Die Brucke world brain H. G. Wells
    3. chrisaldrich 28 Dec 2023
      Wells believed that technological advances such as microfilm could be utilized towards this end so that "any student, in any part of the world, would be able to sit with his projector in his own study at his or her convenience to examine any book, any document, in an exact replica" (p. 54).

      This sounds a lot like Vannevar Bush's Memex, n'cest pas?

      Vannevar Bush H. G. Wells world brain
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    The Idea of a World Encyclopedia by H.G. Wells (Harper's Magazine, April 1937)
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    1. chrisaldrich 26 Dec 2023

      Wells, H. G. “The Idea of a World Encyclopedia.” Harper’s Magazine, April 1937. https://harpers.org/archive/1937/04/the-idea-of-a-world-encyclopedia/.

      References world brain encyclopedias intellectual history sense making read

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