Forgotten Forefather: Paul Otlet (Article by Alex Wright)


	Forgotten Forefather: Paul Otlet (Article by Alex Wright)

Djiezes

12-2-2007 10:34 AM

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12-2-2007 11:28 AM

Fast T friend

Thx for clipping, very interesting.
Btw, for a peek with a flight of imagination on 'would be' technologies, I enjoyed the bits in Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle, describing John Wilkins work (about 300 years earlier).

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