World Brain
World Brain - a book with essays and speeches published in 1938 by the English writer Herbert George Wells.
One of the essays, entitled "The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia", was particularly remarkable because of the presentation of a vision similar to today's Wikipedia. Essay was originally published in August 1937 in the Encyclopedia Française. The "Brain Organization of the Modern World" essay presented Wells vision of the kind of "clearing house" of the human mind, the knowledge store and the ideas acquired, ordered, summarized, explained and compared. Wells predicted that new technical developments like microfilm could be useful. Any interested person could sit down at his or her projector and familiarize themselves with the microfilm replica of each document.
The World Brain project was Wells's response to a question he termed the "World Problem", ie the possibility of mutual purging of nations in the global war conflict. The idea of building such a knowledge network, similar in its essence to today's Internet and the World Wide Web, has met with some recognition, though others wanted to see a conspiracy of the New World Order.
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