Imagining the Internet in 1932
For Digital Future | September 26, 2008
Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet, born in Brussels, Belgium (1868-1944), is considered the founder of the science of reading and it is now a science of the Documentation. Otlet was the author of the "Treaty on Documentation" in 1932. In it he spoke of a future in which information is available for immediate and universal.
This book explains a system very similar to the Internet, where he managed the information in indexes and would be sent on request to different screens that users would see the information. This video has been circulating a lot to the net.
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