Readings 

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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. Wells’s 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.