World brain (Record no. 982133)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20240718110510.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780262542562 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 824.91 |
| Item number | WEL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Wells, H.G |
| 9 (RLIN) | 9572 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | World brain |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | MIT Press |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Cambridge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2021 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xlii, 129 p. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price type code | USD |
| Price amount | 24.95 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | In 1937, H. G. Wells proposed a predigital, freely available World Encyclopedia to represent a civilization-saving World Brain. 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 reality (in about forty volumes); it would be widely available, free of copyright, and utilize the latest technology. 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. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Intellectual cooperation |
| 9 (RLIN) | 11022 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Social structure |
| 9 (RLIN) | 8795 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | International education |
| 9 (RLIN) | 11023 |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Bodh Gaya | Bodh Gaya | General Stacks | 17/12/2022 | International Book Centre | 1356.67 | 824.91 WEL | IIMG-004090 | 17/12/2022 | 1 | 2063.37 | 17/12/2022 | Book |