title Permanent World Encyclopaedia
date 2012-03-18
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 The phrase “Permanent World Encyclopaedia” conveys the gist of these ideas. As the core of such an institution would be a world synthesis of bibliography and documentation with the indexed archives of the world. A great number of workers would be engaged perpetually in perfecting this index of human knowledge and keeping it up to date. Concurrently, the resources of micro-photography, as yet only in their infancy, will be creating a concentrated visual record.

H. G. Wells outlines how technology will make the widespread distribution of all human knowledge possible. This technology is the microfilm.
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