Joseph Reagle on H. G. Wells's "World Brain" (1937)
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What Kind of Leges Detean Vision?
He was really interested in encyclopaedias, cause they've been around for a couple of hundred years ago. And he thought that maybe some sort of international institution could buy the encyclopaedia francas and start using it to build his world brain. He also had interesting tastes when education. A, hehe thought education was critically important, but that education was hide bound and stuck in old ways. His idea would take scholars and information from all these educational and research institutions and turn them into something useful to solve all the conflict and the oncoming world war too.
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