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The condition that doomed the internet's inventor
A 19th-century visionary builds the internet by hand, on paper, in a single building-will his bid to connect all human knowledge be his undoing?
The condition that doomed the internet's inventor
This episode explores the life and work of Paul Otlet, a Belgian information theorist who, in the late 19th century, envisioned and began building a global network of knowledge. What happens when an idea is decades ahead of its time?
Person: Paul Otlet
Date: 1895
Location: Brussels
Event: Founding of the Institut International de Bibliographie
Topic: Information theory
- Paul Otlet, born in 1868, was…
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