>More than a century ago, Belgian information activist Paul Otlet envisioned a universal compilation of knowledge and the technology to make it globally availab

>More than a century ago, Belgian information activist Paul Otlet envisioned a universal compilation of knowledge and the technology to make it globally available. He foresaw, in other words, some of the possibilities of today’s Web. No, he foresaw some universal compilation of knowledge, which is absolutely not the web. But actually as the article explains, he was involved in the cataloging of books, and making the catalogs available via remote means. This development is significant in its own way and I think is diminished by a bogus click-bait comparison to the Internet and the web.