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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"A compilation of essays by H. G. Wells describing a future world encyclopedia, similar to what we now know as Wikipedia"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>In 1937, H. G. Wells proposed a predigital, freely available World Encyclopedia to represent a civilization-saving World Brain.</b> <p/>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 <i>The War of the Worlds</i> and other science fiction classics, was imagining something like a predigital Wikipedia. The World Encyclopedia would provide a summary of verified reality (in about forty volumes); it would be widely available, free of copyright, and utilize the latest technology. <p/>Of course, as Bruce Sterling points out in the foreword to this edition of Wells's work, the World Brain didn't happen; the internet did. And yet, Wells anticipated aspects of the internet, envisioning the World Brain as a technical system of networked knowledge (in Sterling's words, a hypothetical super-gadget). Wells's optimism about the power of information might strike readers today as naïvely utopian, but possibly also inspirational.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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 <i>The Time Machine</i>, <i>The Invisible Man</i>, <i>War of the Worlds</i>, and T<i>ono-Bungay</i>. Bruce Sterling is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction author. Joseph M. Reagle Jr. is the coeditor of <i>Wikipedia @ 20</i> and the author of <i>Hacking Life</i> (both published by the MIT Press) and other books.

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