How Paul Otlet ’s vision of documentation and Global Information Network envisaged more than 100 years ago, helped shape our modern Internet

Long before Vannevar Bush envisioned the Web or Alan Turing pioneered computing, a Belgian idealist and visionary Paul Otlet started documenting and cataloging information for use by the entire world. During the World War II, Otlet’s contributions in the field of information science faded into b...
How Paul Otlet ’s vision of documentation and Global Information Network envisaged more than 100 years ago, helped shape our modern Internet