So apparently, H.G. Wells conceived in 1938 of a decentralized, universally accessible, Permanent World Encyclopedia that he called the World Brain. That was 30 years before the first glimmers of the Internet, let alone Wikipedia and now cryptonetworks 🤯
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> This foreshadows a real intellectual unification of our race. The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual.
> This new all-human cerebrum 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 [...] wherever seems to afford an insurance against danger and interruption.
> This Encyclopaedic organisation [...] might have the form of a network. It would centralise mentally but perhaps not physically. [...] It would constitute the material beginning of a real World Brain.
