World Brain

Name: World Brain
Brand: MIT Press Ltd
SKU: 9780262542562
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Autor: Bruce Sterling, Joseph Reagle

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In 1937, H. G. Wells proposed a predigital, freely available World Encyclopedia to represent a civil...

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Autor

Bruce Sterling, Joseph Reagle

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2021

Stránek

176

EAN

9780262542562

ISBN

0262542560

Enbook ID

33386760

Vydavatel

MIT Press Ltd

Hmotnost

212

Rozměry

203 x 134 x 14

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In 1937, H. G. Wells proposed a predigital, freely available World Encyclopedia to represent a civilization-saving World Brain.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 The War of the Worlds 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. Of course, as Bruce Sterling points out in the foreword to this edition of Wells's work, the World Brain didn't happen; the internet did. And yet, Wells anticipated aspects of the internet, envisioning the World Brain as a technical system of networked knowledge (in Sterling's words, a "hypothetical super-gadget"). Wells's optimism about the power of information might strike readers today as naïvely utopian, but possibly also inspirational.

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