Before you jump to Bush, Licklider, "the internet", Wikipedia and the like for recent analogies, it's worth remembering that some years before Wells actually wr

Before you jump to Bush, Licklider, "the internet", Wikipedia and the like for recent analogies, it's worth remembering that some years before Wells actually wrote this, Paut Otlet's Mundaneum and other related "world brain" projects were underway. Their fruits were very much in place and functioning, and were tragically destroyed during the Second World War, ironically the enabler of the information technologies we so admire today.