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cataloging the world paul otlet and the birth of the information age skip to primary content reviews buy the book about alex wright menu in 1934 fifty years before the first web browser paul otlet described a system of networked computers or electric telescopes that would allow people to search through millions of interlinked documents images audio and video files as the network spread he foresaw it uniting individuals and institutions of all stripes from local bookstores and classrooms to universities and governments he dubbed the whole thing a réseau mondial a worldwide network in one remarkably prescient passage he wrote everything in the universe and everything of man would be registered at a distance as it was produced in this way a moving image of the world will be established a true mirror of his memory from a distance everyone will be able to read text enlarged and limited to the desired subject projected on an individual screen in this way everyone from his armchair will be able to contemplate creation in its entirety or in certain of its parts who was paul otlet loading an internet of paper paul otlet described a future networked environment the mundaneum that in many ways resembles the present day internet but his vision extended well beyond the scope of a simple information repository the mundaneum that otlet imagined would serve as the intellectual nerve center of a a post national world order connecting governments universities bookstores and other institutions in a utopian collaborative network ultimately otlet imagined that such an environment would allow national boundaries to dissolve eliminate the causes of war and allow humanity to make a collective leap forward towards a more harmonious and enlightened state of being loading a web of influence the myth of the lone genius ranks as one of the persistent myths in western culture for all of otlet s personal brilliance his ideas took shape at a particular place and time often in close collaboration with his contemporaries otlet s work provides a window into a broader and largely overlooked lineage of twentieth century thinking about the possibilities of a networked world h g wells the english science fiction writer and social activist dreamed of building a world brain emanuel goldberg a brilliant inventor of russian jewish ancestry designed a fully functional mechanical search engine in 1930s germany before fleeing the nazis scotland s patrick geddes and austria s otto neurath both explored new kinds of highly designed propagandistic museum exhibits designed to foster social change germany s wilhelm ostwald the nobel prize winning chemist aspired to build a vast new brain of humanity the eccentric sculptor hendrik andersen and the famed architect le corbusier both worked with otlet on the design of a world city to house a new one world government with a networked information repository at its epicenter their work preceded and prefigured the work of later anglo american innovators like vannevar bush douglas engelbart andy van dam ted nelson and tim berners lee the inventor of the world wide web yet the contributions of these european pioneers have been largely ignored in the conventional history of the internet which has focused almost exclusively on the contributions of post wwii anglo american inventors the work of otlet and his contemporaries invites us to broaden our horizons beyond the realm of computer science loading now available from oxford university press loading post navigation