World Brain
$49.07
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
19 October 2021
Summary
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 real…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262542562 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262542560 |
| Author: | H.G. Wells, Bruce Sterling |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 19 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 368g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm |
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About The Author
H.G. Wells
H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was a prolific and best-selling author of novels, short stories, and social commentary. Among his best-known works are The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, War of the Worlds, and Tono-Bungay.
Bruce Sterling is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction author.
Joseph M. Reagle Jr. is the coeditor of Wikipedia @ 20 and the author of Hacking Life and other books.
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