Paul Otlet, visioning a web in 1934
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Uploaded by gardosattila on Jun 17, 2008
Paul Otlet, a Belgian bibliographer, pacifist and entrepreneur imagined a day when users would access the database from great distances by means of an "electric telescope" connected through a telephone line, retrieving a facsimile image to be projected remotely on a flat screen.
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What a visionary back in 1934 #PaulOblet (sparked by @tsystems_mms and svtechtalk) BTW same era as early #JayForrester inventor of #RAM
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Damn, what a visionary!
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to belgium 70 years ago
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If you ask me, internet is the greatest invention of all time, after the toilet.
This world lacks visionaries like this guy these day's.
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Great, thanks for sharing!
asetter 3 years ago 7
This is amazing! It is like seeing daVinci's sketches of helicopters. What is the source for this video? Are those illustrations from Otlet's book?
jbsinger1970 3 years ago 4