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H. G. Wells on AI

2 quotes from H. G. Wells on the wall, 1938, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Doubleday, Doran.

1. A widespread world intelligence conscious of itself

   1938·#politics#culture

   ContextWho else?

   English novelist H. G. Wells in the preface to World Brain, his 1938 collection of lectures and essays proposing a permanent world encyclopaedia, published by Doubleday, Doran.

   Doubleday, Doran · World Brain

2. A mechanical unification of the world

   1938·#politics#culture

   ContextWho else?

   H. G. Wells on how new means of communication had tied the world together, in the preface to his 1938 book World Brain.

   Doubleday, Doran · World Brain

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