Interessant. HG Wells skriver om en "World Brain" in 1937:
http://art-bin.com/art/obrain.html
"...modern facilities of transport, radio, photographic reproduction and so
forth are rendering practicable a much more fully succinct and accessible
assembly of fact and ideas than was ever possible before.
...project a unified, if not a centralized, world organ to "pull the mind of
the world together", which will be not so much a rival to the universities, as
a supplementary and co-ordinating addition to their educational activities - on
a planetary scale.
The phrase "Permanent World Encyclopaedia" conveys the gist of these ideas. As
the core of such an institution would be a world synthesis of bibliography and
documentation with the indexed archives of the world. A great number of workers
would be engaged perpetually in perfecting this index of human knowledge and
keeping it up to date. Concurrently, the resources of micro-photography, as yet
only in their infancy, will be creating a concentrated visual record.
...even the rarest visions and the most recondite matters can be recalled,
once they have been put in place in a well-ordered scheme of reference and
reproduction. The American microfilm experts, even now, are making facsimiles
of the rarest books, manuscripts, pictures and specimens, which can then be
made easily accessible upon the library srceen. By means of the microfilm, the
rarest and most intricate documents and articles can be studied now at first
hand, simultaneously in a score of projection rooms. There is no practical
obstacle whatever now to the creation of an efficient index to all human
knowledge, ideas and achievements...
The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made
accessible to every individual. And what is also of very great importance in
this uncertain world where destruction becomes continually more frequent and
unpredictable, is this, that photography affords now every facility for
multiplying duplicates of this - which we may call? - this new all-human
cerebrum. It need not be concentrated in any one single place. It need not be
vulnerable as a human head or a human heart is vulnerable. It can be reproduced
exactly and fully, in Peru, China, Iceland, Central Africa, or wherever else
seems to afford an insurance against danger and interruption. It can have at
once, the concentration of a craniate animal and the diffused vitality of an
amoeba.
This is no remote dream, no fantasy. It is a plain statement of a contemporary
state of affairs. It is on the level of practicable fact."
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