Library Utopias

Jochum, Uwe

doi:10.1179/lib.1995.11.1.16

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1995

DOI: 10.1179/lib.1995.11.1.16

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Library Utopias

Uwe Jochum¹

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“…Uwe Jochum sees something rather more anticipatory of contemporary developments in Well's passing references to decentralization and networks than I(Jochum, 1995).…”

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H.G. Wells's idea of a World Brain: A critical reassessment

Rayward

1999

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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What exactly are the Wellsian World Brain or World Encyclopaedia ideas to which reference is so often made? What did they mean for Wells? What might they mean for us? This article examines closely what Wells says about them in his book, World Brain (1938), and in a number of works that elaborate what is expressed there. The article discusses aspects of the context within which Wells's conception of a new world encyclopaedia organization was formulated and its role in the main thrust of his thought. The article argues that Wells's ideas about a World Brain are embedded in a structure of thought that may be shown to entail on the one hand notions of social repression and control that must give us pause, and on the other a concept of the nature and organization of knowledge that may well be no longer acceptable. By examining Wells's ideas in some detail and attempting to articulate the systems of belief which shaped them and which otherwise lie silent beneath them, the author hopes to provoke questions about current theorizing about the nature of global information systems and emergent intelligence.

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“…Uwe Jochum sees something rather more anticipatory of contemporary developments in Well's passing references to decentralization and networks than I(Jochum, 1995).…”

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H.G. Wells's idea of a World Brain: A critical reassessment

Rayward

1999

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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H.G. Wells's idea of a World Brain: A critical reassessment

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