Cataloging the world : Paul Otlet and the birth of the information age / Alex Wright.

"In 1934, a Belgian entrepreneur named Paul Otlet sketched out plans for a worldwide network of computers--or "electric telescopes," as he called them -- that would allow people anywhere in the world to search and browse through millions of books, newspapers, photographs, films and so...

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Main Author: Wright, Alex, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Call Number: Z1004.O83 W75 2014eb