Rumor of the day

Thu, 06/19/2008 - 08:06 — katina.strauch

There is a fascinating article in a recent New York Times about the Mundaneum Museum in Mons, Belgium and Paul Otlet. In the 1930s and 1940s, Otlet drew up plans for a network of "electronic telescopes". Otlet was fascinated with printed books and was described as a bookworm. But much of his work echoes what is happening now -- the Web, Google, social networks. In fact, reportedly Google is planning to open a data center at the edge of Mons. See "The Web Time Forgot," by Alex Wright.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/science/17mund.html?pagewanted=1&ref=t...

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