World brain / H.G. Wells ; foreword by Bruce Sterling ; introduction by Joseph Reagle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946, author.

Contributor:

Sterling, Bruce, writer of foreword.

Reagle, Joseph M., Jr., writer of introduction.

Series:

The MIT Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (93 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]

Summary:

"A compilation of essays by H. G. Wells describing a future world encyclopedia, similar to what we now know as Wikipedia"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

World Encyclopedia (Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, November 20th, 1936)

The Brain Organization of the Modern World (Lecture delivered in America, October and November, 1937)

The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopedia (Contribution to the new Encyclopédic Française, August, 1937)

Passage from a Speech to the Congrès Mondial de la Documentation Universelle, Paris, August 20th, 1937

The Informative Content of Education (Presidential Address to the Educational Science Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, September 12th, 1937)

Appendix I. Ruffled Teachers (Sunday Chronicle, September 12th, 1937)

Appendix II. Palestine in Proportion (Sunday Chronicle, October 3rd, 1937)

Appendix III. The Fall in America 1937 (Collier's, January 28th, 1938)

Appendix IV. Transatlantic Misunderstandings (Liberty, January 15th, 1938).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-36549-9

0-262-36550-2

OCLC:

1255632997