H. G. Wells Invented the Internet!
Correspondent:: "Rev. Ivan Stang"
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 16:59:04 -0500
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
In 1938, aged 72, English writer H. G. Wells published a little book of
essays and speeches titled World Brain.
One essay titled "The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia" is
remarkable in presenting a vision very similar to Wikipedia. This essay
first appeared in the new Encyclopédie Française, August, 1937.
The essay "The Brain Organization of the Modern World" lays out Wells'
vision for "...a sort of mental clearing house for the mind, a depot
where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested,
clarified and compared." (p. 49) Wells felt that technological advances
such as microfilm could be utilized towards this end so that "any
student, in any part of the world, will be able to sit with his
projector in his own study at his or her convenience to examine any
book, any document, in an exact replica." (p. 54)
Wells had been involved with the socialist Fabian Society, the League
of Nations, and the International PEN, and his intent for World Brain
was no less than helping to solve what he termed the World Problem,
i.e. the possibility of the mutual destruction of nations in a World
War. Wells has been both praised for envisioning an educational
knowledge network (not unlike the Internet and World Wide Web) and
criticized for proposing what to some amounts to a New World Order.
Reprinted without permission by The Morlock Anti-Defamation League,
Rev. Ivan Stang, pres.
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Correspondent:: "splendid_blond_beast"
Date: 4 Feb 2005 07:03:47 -0800
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Arthur Clarke iced that cake when back in the 1940's, I believe it was
, he predicted that one day everyone would have their news, etc;
conveniently delivered on a desktop video unit. And there's the "X
minus One" episode "Ask your Logic" which predicts the same ease of
information retrieval, w/ a bit of a twist, of course....
BTW, did you receive the "X minus One" and "Dimension X" episodes on CD
that I sent ya a while back?
IF not and if you want 'em , let me know and I'll resend. Those and a
lot more cool '30s-'50s radio scifi shows are also available @
http://www.otrcat.com.
Rev. Ivan Stang wrote:
> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
>
>
> In 1938, aged 72, English writer H. G. Wells published a little book
of
> essays and speeches titled World Brain.
>
> One essay titled "The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia" is
> remarkable in presenting a vision very similar to Wikipedia. This
essay
> first appeared in the new Encyclopédie Française, August, 1937.
>
> The essay "The Brain Organization of the Modern World" lays out
Wells'
> vision for "...a sort of mental clearing house for the mind, a depot
> where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested,
> clarified and compared." (p. 49) Wells felt that technological
advances
> such as microfilm could be utilized towards this end so that "any
> student, in any part of the world, will be able to sit with his
> projector in his own study at his or her convenience to examine any
> book, any document, in an exact replica." (p. 54)
>
> Wells had been involved with the socialist Fabian Society, the League
> of Nations, and the International PEN, and his intent for World Brain
> was no less than helping to solve what he termed the World Problem,
> i.e. the possibility of the mutual destruction of nations in a World
> War. Wells has been both praised for envisioning an educational
> knowledge network (not unlike the Internet and World Wide Web) and
> criticized for proposing what to some amounts to a New World Order.
>
>
> Reprinted without permission by The Morlock Anti-Defamation League,
> Rev. Ivan Stang, pres.
>
> --
> The SubGenius Foundation, Inc.
> (4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs
Yeti,
> Resurrected, Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
> P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
> Dobbs-Approved Authorized Commercial Outreach of The Church of the
SubGenius
> SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com PRABOB
Correspondent:: "Rev. Ivan Stang"
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:57:42 -0500
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In article <1107529427.308225.97360@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
splendid_blond_beast wrote:
> Arthur Clarke iced that cake when back in the 1940's, I believe it was
> , he predicted that one day everyone would have their news, etc;
> conveniently delivered on a desktop video unit. And there's the "X
> minus One" episode "Ask your Logic" which predicts the same ease of
> information retrieval, w/ a bit of a twist, of course....
> BTW, did you receive the "X minus One" and "Dimension X" episodes on CD
> that I sent ya a while back?
> IF not and if you want 'em , let me know and I'll resend. Those and a
> lot more cool '30s-'50s radio scifi shows are also available @
> http://www.otrcat.com.
>
Well, I don't know. I can't tell from your e-handle who you are and I
just looked through the immense stack of as yet unheard CDs and CDRs
but that wasn't among any of the LABELED ones anyway. If you sent it to
Austin I might get it in a few months.
It might be in one of the envelopes I put in the box of mail I was
supposed to answer that I took with me to Texas last December and still
haven't managed to get into. I've been SLOWLY trying to catch up with
the email from then.
I NEVER FALL BEHIND ON SWAG ORDERS THOUGH!! SWAG GOES OUT WITHIN DAYS
OF YOUR ORDER! Usually within about one and a half days. I want all to
understand that we do NOT fuck around when it comes to your MONEY.
Your deepest most heartfelt confessions? We'll get to those later. Your
plea for help in deciding against suicide? Eh, you're next in line.
Well almost next. Wanted to know if you can use "Bob" in your home
movie titles? Our legal department wil be getting back to you. But your
ORDER? THAT COMES FIRST, BEFORE ALL ELSE!
One reason is purely physical. The ordered swag stacks up and takes up
too much space if I don't envelope it up and tote it to the P.O. every
couple of days. The other reason is that we want our customers to be
able to tell their friends, "I felt like an IDIOT for sending them that
$25 but I got that damn DVD in my mailbox TWO HOURS after I ordered it
off their website! And I haven't been able to turn it off since I first
started playing it!"
I must confess that I do not have comedy or audio theater tapes playing
during the day when I work. I don't even play any of my huge collection
of movie scores, Bach and instrumental loud guitar music. I WOULDN'T
HEAR IT ANYWAY AFTER THE FIRST FOUR NOTES. I only notice it again when
the CD STOPS playing. I would listen to stuff int he car but I NEVER
DRIVE nowadays and if I do I'm usually with somebody and we talk.
About the only time I dedicatedly listen to anything these days is when
I'm hurriedly assembling Hours of Slack. For that I OF COURSE first
listen to all the new SubGenius-made material that's come in from
email, a.b.s. or whatnot.
And that's... usually an hour's worth, once it's been edited and fucked
with for a day.
Princess Wei, to whom I am consort, is a singer in two bands, so I end
up hearing a lot of Victoria Ganger and Revelry, and The Mondo Retardo
Band. Which I think I will post some rough MP3s of, to a.b.s., in about
ten minutes. That's another thing -- my computer and I spend an awful
lot of time JUST PROCESSING media. I mean, not even hearing it but
CONVERTING and distributing it. Any frequent uploader will tell you
that that whole process is a bit more time consuming than the
downloading and hearing. An hour of slack a week times 20 copies plus
two types of OGGs uploaded to one place and MP3 version put another
place... and mailing the stuff... and labeling them AND ALL THE PARTS
THAT YOU KEEP FOR LATER USE in AIFF format (so they keep their
file-names and remain editable).
If I find myself with nothing but mindless physical chores coming up,
that's when I'll JUST LISTEN, and even kind of dance around and WHISTLE
in counterpoint with it, but when those times come it's usually
something dear to my heart that I wanted to hear for months. Lately it
has been the 5 CDRs of Captain Beefheart bootleg live concerts,
out-take reels and rare tracks. Heck I've only made it through the
first half of one CDR.
BUT IT HAD THE INSTRUMENTAL-ONLY TRACKS (NO VOCALS) FOR MANY BEEFHEART
SONGS -- ALLOWING BEEFHEART KARAOKE!
And I can't even remember where these disks came from, if it was Philo
or Dr. Dark or who!
I guess what I'm saying is, maybe if I paid my secretaries more I'd
have a secretary.
But then the SECRETARY would be the one seeing all the mail and hearing
the CDs, IF EVER! I did have a kind of secretary once and the main
thing it did was INTERCEPT THE GROUPIES BEFORE I EVEN KNEW ABOUT THEM!
I was married so it was a moot point really, but a guy likes to know he
has the OPTION.
Anyway thanks for sending those disks! They probably will come bobbing
to the surface at just exactly the correct appointed time.
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Correspondent:: HdMrs. Salacia the Overseer
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:56:44 -0600
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:57:42 -0500, "Rev. Ivan Stang"
wrote:
>But then the SECRETARY would be the one seeing all the mail and hearing
>the CDs, IF EVER! I did have a kind of secretary once and the main
>thing it did was INTERCEPT THE GROUPIES BEFORE I EVEN KNEW ABOUT THEM!
>I was married so it was a moot point really, but a guy likes to know he
>has the OPTION.
Groupies! Hah! You wish.
Bobbies, more like, in the grips of a hot "Bob" induced religious
erotomania.
Like none of YOU have NEVER had one of those days!
WHAT?!!
Salacia
Correspondent:: "Rev. Ivan Stang"
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:02:08 -0500
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In article , HdMrs. Salacia
the Overseer wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 12:57:42 -0500, "Rev. Ivan Stang"
> wrote:
>
>
> >But then the SECRETARY would be the one seeing all the mail and hearing
> >the CDs, IF EVER! I did have a kind of secretary once and the main
> >thing it did was INTERCEPT THE GROUPIES BEFORE I EVEN KNEW ABOUT THEM!
> >I was married so it was a moot point really, but a guy likes to know he
> >has the OPTION.
>
> Groupies! Hah! You wish.
>
> Bobbies, more like, in the grips of a hot "Bob" induced religious
> erotomania.
>
> Like none of YOU have NEVER had one of those days!
>
> WHAT?!!
>
Well, yeah. Granted.
--
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(4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected, Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
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Correspondent:: "Doktor Dark"
Date: 20 Feb 2005 14:40:26 -0800
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Lately it
has been the 5 CDRs of Captain Beefheart bootleg live concerts,
out-take reels and rare tracks. Heck I've only made it through the
first half of one CDR.
BUT IT HAD THE INSTRUMENTAL-ONLY TRACKS (NO VOCALS) FOR MANY BEEFHEART
SONGS -- ALLOWING BEEFHEART KARAOKE!
And I can't even remember where these disks came from, if it was Philo
or Dr. Dark or who!
TWAS I, MEIN SCRIBEN FUERHER!
Correspondent:: phy
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:33:22 GMT
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"Rev. Ivan Stang" wrote in
news:030220051659043699%stang@subgeniusNOSPUM.com:
>
> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
>
>
> In 1938, aged 72, English writer H. G. Wells published a little book of
> essays and speeches titled World Brain.
>
> One essay titled "The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia"
The first time I went to Wikipedia, I was amazed how much it reminded me of
THGTTG.
-phy