"As most of you know, H.G. Wells' World Brain has become a metaphor for a futuristic view of information science and technology. Others prefer to credit Vannevar Bush's Memex. However, I have always given H.G. Wells the priority and even commissioned a major and unusual work of art in 1981 by Gabriel Liebermann with technical assistance from Vernon Porter at Texas Instruments. Their holographic etching entitled "The World Brain" resides in the lobby at ISI in Philadelphia. Wells was also on my mind when I wrote "Towards the World Brain," which includes my testimony before a Congressional Subcommittee on Education and Labor of the US House of Representatives of the 88th (1963-64) Congress. Here is how I described the "Information Crisis" to a lay audience ..."
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