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Fast Growing Awareness
from “Global Learning – Constructing the World Mind” The human tendency to ignore or resist the need to change until events impose it may yet prove fatal to our species. We should remember that every...
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Technical means found, intellectual means lost?
from “Global Learning – Constructing the World Mind” The 1990s versions of the World Brain concept — being less practical perhaps — put their faith in evolution as the principle means by which the...
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Instrument of evolution
from “Global Learning – Constructing the World Mind” For H. G. Wells, the purpose of the World Brain was primarily instrumental. It was a way to organise human thinking and knowledge by using...
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Learning – A lifelong requirement
from “Constructing the World Mind” H. G. Wells says the World Brain’s purpose would be to “make it easier for individuals to learn by and for themselves,” while systematically providing “almost...
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Knowledge Working – Learning to create an “intellectual authority”
from “Constructing the World Mind” People whom H. G. Wells called “intellectual workers” would, he predicted, arise from the world’s universities and research institutions and cooperate in order to...
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Interactive processing – Emphasising the key concepts of cyberspace
from “Constructing the World Mind” H. G. Wells emphasises the necessity to “fully recognise that communication is a two way process” and also the importance of effective presentation, while Alan Mayne...
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Harmonizing – In an “age of imperative construction”
from “Constructing the World Mind” In the Critical Introduction, Adamantine’s editor, Alan Mayne links H. G. Wells World Brain concept with both John Amos Comenius citing his 1643 tract, Patterns of...
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Organizing – Constructing a World Encyclopaedia
from “Constructing the World Mind” A common, systematic global organization of the world’s knowledge is conceived by H. G. Wells as the only way for humanity to achieve a “common conception of a common...
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Learning to survive in harmony
from “Constructing the World Mind” Can our society double up its mind-capacity? It must do so or die; and I can see no reason why it may not widen its consciousness of complex conditions far enough to...
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Recognize Perils – The Perils of Ignoring Ignorance
In H. G. Wells view knowledge is “unused and misapplied” so that policy makers are ill-equipped “to be aware of or fully appreciate” the knowledge available to solve their (our – Ed]. problems. He...
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FORWARD GUIDANCE ‘TRILEMMA’– Precommitment controversy
FORWARD GUIDANCE ‘TRILEMMA’ – Precommitment controversy.
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