The point they are trying to make is that Otlet and La Fontaine had a vision for something that is much like the modern internet. "Otlet and La Fontaine aimed

The point they are trying to make is that Otlet and La Fontaine had a vision for something that is much like the modern internet. "Otlet and La Fontaine aimed to preserve peace by assembling knowledge and making it accessible to the entire world." "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." The books over television sketch from 1920 is pretty cool, and some of the stuff they were thinking up is much like linked data / semantic web.