(Most readings are available on the Web. To read the documents listed as PDF
format, you must have Acrobat Reader. Download Reader [free].)
Buckland, Michael. 1991. Information as Thing.
Buckland, Michael. 1997. What Is a Document?
Bush, Vannevar. 1945. As We May Think.
Day, Ronald E. 1997. Paul Otlet's Book and The Writing of
Social Space.
Day, Ronald E. 1999. The Virtual Game: Objects, Groups, and
Games in the Works of
Pierre Lévy.
Lévy, Pierre. Collective
Intelligence and its Objects: Many-to-Many Communication in a 'Meaning World'.
Lévy, Pierre. Toward Superlanguage.
Progress & Freedom Foundation. Cyberspace
and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age.
Rayward, Boyd. 2000. The Paul
Otlet Page.
Rayward, Boyd. 1991. The
Case of Paul Otlet, Pioneer of Information Science, Internationalist, Visionary:
Reflections on Biography.
Rayward, Boyd. 1994. Visions
of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and Hypertext.
Rayward, Boyd. 1994a. Some Schemes for Restructuring and
Mobilising Information in Documents: A Historical Perspective. [PDF
file]
Rayward, Boyd. 1999. H.G. Wellss
Idea of a World Brain: A Critical Re-Assessment.
Regis, Ed. 1994. Meet
the Extropians.
Rieusset-Lemarie, Isabelle. P.
Otlet's Mundaneum and the International Prespective in the History od Documentation and
Information Science. [PDF file]
Wagar, W. Warren. H.G. Wells and the
Genesis of Future Studies.
Wells, H.G. 1937. World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia.
Wells, H.G. 1938. World Encyclopedia. In World
Brain. New York: Doubleday. [PDF file]
Wells, H.G. 1938a. The Brain Organization of the Modern World.
In World Brain. New York: Doubleday. Part 1; Part 2; Part 3. [PDF file in three parts]
Wells, H.G. 1938b. The Idea of a Permanernt World
Encyclopedia. In World Brain. New York: Doubleday. [PDF
file]
Wolf, Gary. 1995. The
Curse of Xanadu. See also response by Jim Whitehead, Orality and Hypertext: An Interview
with Ted Nelson.
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