Reginald Arthur Smith wrote ''Towards A Living Encyclopedia'', which offered suggestions for ways to bear out
H.G. Wells's proposal for a "
world brain
''World Brain'' is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian H. G. Wells, dating from the period of 1936–1938.Wells, H.G. (1938). ''World Brain''. Lond ...
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[''Library Trends'', Vol. 42, No. 4, Spring 1994, pp. 585–90. Retrieved 29 November 2010 from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/7925]
See also
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Global brain
The global brain is a neuroscience-inspired and futurological vision of the planetary information and communications technology network that interconnects all humans and their technological artifacts. As this network stores ever more information, t ...
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Encyclopedism
Encyclopedism is an outlook that aims to include a wide range of knowledge in a single work. The term covers both encyclopedias themselves and related genres in which comprehensiveness is a notable feature. The word encyclopedia is a Latinization ...
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