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3863020World Brainhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/world-brain-9780262365505/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3094147/9161d17e-a1fd-4cfc-a226-248fa7a8c4b0.jpg?v=638384872682630000368512MXNMIT PressInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>In 1937, H. G. Wells proposed a predigital, freely available World Encyclopedia to represent a civilization-saving World Brain.</strong></p><p>In a series of talks and essays in 1937, H. G. Wells proselytized for what he called a "World Brain," as manifested in a World Encyclopedia--a repository of scientifically established knowledge--that would spread enlightenment around the world and lead to world peace. Wells, known to readers today as the author of <em>The War of the Worlds</em> and other science fiction classics, was imagining something like a predigital Wikipedia. The World Encyclopedia would provide a summary of verified reality (in about forty volumes); it would be widely available, free of copyright, and utilize the latest technology.</p><p>Of course, as Bruce Sterling points out in the foreword to this edition of Wellss work, the World Brain didnt happen; the internet did. And yet, Wells anticipated aspects of the internet, envisioning the World Brain as a technical system of networked knowledge (in Sterlings words, a "hypothetical super-gadget"). Wellss optimism about the power of information might strike readers today as navely utopian, but possibly also inspirational.</p>...3799231World Brain368512https://www.gandhi.com.mx/world-brain-9780262365505/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3094147/9161d17e-a1fd-4cfc-a226-248fa7a8c4b0.jpg?v=638384872682630000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20219780262365505_W3siaWQiOiIzZTI5MzE5MS1kODU2LTRjM2QtOTkzMy0wY2NmMDI1NThkZjEiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjQ5OSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjE0MCwic2VsbGluZ1ByaWNlIjozNTksImluY2x1ZGVzVGF4Ijp0cnVlLCJwcmljZVR5cGUiOiJXaG9sZXNhbGUiLCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6Ik1YTiIsImZyb20iOiIyMDI0LTEyLTAxVDAwOjAwOjAwWiIsInJlZ2lvbiI6Ik1YIiwiaXNQcmVvcmRlciI6ZmFsc2V9XQ==9780262365505_<p><strong>In 1937, H. G. Wells proposed a predigital, freely available World Encyclopedia to represent a civilization-saving World Brain.</strong></p><p>In a series of talks and essays in 1937, H. G. Wells proselytized for what he called a World Brain, as manifested in a World Encyclopedia--a repository of scientifically established knowledge--that would spread enlightenment around the world and lead to world peace. Wells, known to readers today as the author of <em>The War of the Worlds</em> and other science fiction classics, was imagining something like a predigital Wikipedia. The World Encyclopedia would provide a summary of verified reality (in about forty volumes); it would be widely available, free of copyright, and utilize the latest technology.</p><p>Of course, as Bruce Sterling points out in the foreword to this edition of Wellss work, the World Brain didnt happen; the internet did. And yet, Wells anticipated aspects of the internet, envisioning the World Brain as a technical system of networked knowledge (in Sterlings words, a hypothetical super-gadget). Wellss optimism about the power of information might strike readers today as navely utopian, but possibly also inspirational.</p>(*_*)9780262365505_<p><strong>In 1937, H. G. Wells proposed a predigital, freely available World Encyclopedia to represent a civilization-saving World Brain.</strong></p><p>In a series of talks and essays in 1937, H. G. Wells proselytized for what he called a "World Brain," as manifested in a World Encyclopedia--a repository of scientifically established knowledge--that would spread enlightenment around the world and lead to world peace. Wells, known to readers today as the author of <em>The War of the Worlds</em> and other science fiction classics, was imagining something like a predigital Wikipedia. The World Encyclopedia would provide a summary of verified reality (in about forty volumes); it would be widely available, free of copyright, and utilize the latest technology.</p><p>Of course, as Bruce Sterling points out in the foreword to this edition of Wellss work, the World Brain didnt happen; the internet did. And yet, Wells anticipated aspects of the internet, envisioning the World Brain as a technical system of networked knowledge (in Sterlings words, a "hypothetical super-gadget"). Wellss optimism about the power of information might strike readers today as navely utopian, but possibly also inspirational.</p>...9780262365505_MIT Presslibro_electonico_6e6a0d70-7886-3581-b6c7-029805d02de7_9780262365505;9780262365505_9780262365505H.G. WellsInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/randomhousewh-epub-8d609583-5c46-4499-a2fb-03ed98cbfca2.epub2021-08-03T00:00:00+00:00MIT Press