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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"World Encyclopedia" redirects here. For the encyclopedia, see <a href="Heibonsha_World_Encyclopedia" title="Heibonsha World Encyclopedia">Heibonsha World Encyclopedia</a>.</div>

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</style><table class="infobox ib-book vcard"><caption class="infobox-title">World Brain </caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption">First edition cover</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Methuen_Publishing" title="Methuen Publishing">Methuen Publishing</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1938</td></tr></tbody></table>

</p><p><i><b>World Brain</b></i> is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, <a href="Social_reform" class="mw-redirect" title="Social reform">social reformer</a>, evolutionary biologist and historian <a href="H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>, dating from the period of 1936–1938.<sup id="cite_ref-WB38_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WB38-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Throughout the book, Wells describes his vision of the World Brain: a new, free, synthetic, authoritative, permanent "World <a href="Encyclopaedia" class="mw-redirect" title="Encyclopaedia">Encyclopaedia</a>" that could help <a href="Global_citizenship" title="Global citizenship">world citizens</a> make the best use of universal <a href="Source_text" title="Source text">information resources</a> and make the best contribution to <a href="World_peace" title="World peace">world peace</a>.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="Encyclopedism" title="Encyclopedism">Encyclopedism</a></div>

<p>Plans for creating a global knowledge network long predate Wells. <a href="Andrew_Michael_Ramsay" title="Andrew Michael Ramsay">Andrew Michael Ramsay</a> described, c. 1737, an objective of <a href="Freemasonry" title="Freemasonry">freemasonry</a> as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-Heylighen_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heylighen-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<blockquote><p>... to furnish the materials for a Universal Dictionary ... By this means the lights of all nations will be united in one single work, which will be a universal library of all that is beautiful, great, luminous, solid, and useful in all the sciences and in all noble arts. This work will augment in each century, according to the increase of knowledge.</p></blockquote>

<p>The <a href="Encyclop%C3%A9distes" title="Encyclopédistes">Encyclopedist</a> movement in France in the mid-eighteenth century was a major attempt to actualize this philosophy. However, efforts to encompass all knowledge came to seem less possible as the available corpus expanded exponentially.<sup id="cite_ref-Heylighen_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heylighen-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>In 1926, extending the analogy between global telegraphy and the nervous system, <a href="Nikola_Tesla" title="Nikola Tesla">Nikola Tesla</a> speculated that:

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</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain ...

Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote>

<p><a href="Paul_Otlet" title="Paul Otlet">Paul Otlet</a>, a contemporary of Wells and <a href="Information_science" title="Information science">information science</a> pioneer, revived this movement in the twentieth century. Otlet wrote in 1935, "Man would no longer need documentation if he were assimilated into a being that has become omniscient, in the manner of God himself." Otlet, like Wells, supported the internationalist efforts of the <a href="League_of_Nations" title="League of Nations">League of Nations</a> and its <a href="International_Institute_of_Intellectual_Cooperation" class="mw-redirect" title="International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation">International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Heylighen_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heylighen-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Reagle_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reagle-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 21–24">: 21–24 </span></sup>

</p><p>For his part, Wells had advocated <a href="World_government" title="World government">world government</a> for at least a decade, arguing in such books as <i><a href="The_Open_Conspiracy" title="The Open Conspiracy">The Open Conspiracy</a></i> for control of education by a scientific elite.<sup id="cite_ref-Reagle_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reagle-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 24">: 24 </span></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h2></div>

<p>In the wake of the first World War, Wells believed that people needed to become more educated and conversant with events and knowledge that surrounded them. In order to do this he offered the idea of the knowledge system of the World Brain that all humans could access.<sup id="cite_ref-Rayward_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rayward-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 564">: 564 </span></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_Encyclopedia">World Encyclopedia</h3></div>

<p>This section, Wells's first expression of his dream of a World Brain, was delivered as a lecture at the <a href="Royal_Institution" title="Royal Institution">Royal Institution of Great Britain</a>, Weekly Evening Meeting, Friday, 20 November 1936.

</p><p>Wells begins the lecture with a statement on his preference for cohesive worldviews rather than isolated facts. Correspondingly, he wishes the world to be such a whole "as coherent and consistent as possible". He mentions <i><a href="The_Work%2C_Wealth_and_Happiness_of_Mankind" title="The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind">The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind</a></i> (1931), one of his own attempts at providing intellectual synthesis, and calls it disappointingly unmatched.

</p><p>He expresses dismay at the ignorance of social science among the <a href="Treaty_of_Versailles" title="Treaty of Versailles">Treaty of Versailles</a> and <a href="League_of_Nations" title="League of Nations">League of Nations</a> framers. He mentions some recent works on the role of science in society and states his main problem as follows:

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<blockquote><p>We want the intellectual worker to become a more definitely organised factor in the human scheme. How is that factor to be organised? Is there any way of implementing knowledge for ready and universal effect?</p></blockquote>

<p>In answer he introduces the doctrine of New Encyclopaedism as a framework for integrating intellectuals into an organic whole. For the ordinary man, who will necessarily be an educated citizen in the modern state:

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<blockquote><p>From his point of view the World Encyclopaedia would be a row of volumes in his own home or in some neighbouring house or in a convenient public library or in any school or college, and in this row of volumes he would, without any great toil or difficulty, find in clear understandable language, and kept up to date, the ruling concepts of our social order, the outlines and main particulars in all fields of knowledge, an exact and reasonably detailed picture of our universe, a general history of the world, and if by any chance he wanted to pursue a question into its ultimate detail, a trustworthy and complete system of reference to primary sources of knowledge. In fields where wide varieties of method and opinion existed, he would find, not casual summaries of opinions, but very carefully chosen and correlated statements and arguments. [...] This World Encyclopaedia would be the mental background of every intelligent man in the world. It would be alive and growing and changing continually under revision, extension and replacement from the original thinkers in the world everywhere. Every university and research institution should be feeding it. Every fresh mind should be brought into contact with its standing editorial organisation. And on the other hand its contents would be the standard source of material for the instructional side of school and college work, for the verification of facts and the testing of statements—everywhere in the world. Even journalists would deign to use it; even newspaper proprietors might be made to respect it.</p></blockquote>

<p>Such an encyclopedia would be akin to a secular bible. Universal acceptance would be possible due to the underlying similarity of human brains. For specialists and intellectuals, the World Encyclopedia will provide valuable coordination with other intellectuals working in similar areas.

</p><p>Wells calls for the formation of an Encyclopaedia Society to promote the project and defend it from exploitation (e.g. by an "enterprising publisher" trying to profit from it). This society would also organize departments for production. Of course, the existence of a society has its own risks:

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<blockquote><p>And there will be a constant danger that some of the early promoters may feel and attempt to realise a sort of proprietorship in the organisation, to make a group or a gang of it. But to recognise that danger is half-way to averting it.</p></blockquote>

<p>The language of the World Encyclopedia would be English because of its greater range, precision, and subtlety.

</p><p>Intellectual workers across the world would be increasingly bound together through their participation.

</p><p>Wells wishes that wise world citizens would ensure world peace. He suggests that a world intellectual project will have more positive impact to this end than will any political movement such as communism, fascism, imperialism, pacifism, etc.

</p><p>He ended his lecture as follows:

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<blockquote><p>[W]hat I am saying ... is this, that without a World Encyclopaedia to hold men's minds together in something like a common interpretation of reality, there is no hope whatever of anything but an accidental and transitory alleviation of any of our world troubles.<sup id="cite_ref-WB38_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WB38-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 34–35">: 34–35 </span></sup></p></blockquote>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Brain_Organization_of_the_Modern_World">The Brain Organization of the Modern World</h3></div>

<p>This section was first delivered as a lecture in America, October and November 1937.

</p><p>This lecture promotes the doctrine New Encyclopedism described previously. Wells begins with the observation that the world has become a single interconnected community due to the <a href="History_of_telecommunication" title="History of telecommunication">enormously increased speed of telecommunications</a>. Secondly, he says that <a href="Energy" title="Energy">energy</a> is available on a new scale, enabling, among other things, the capability for mass destruction. Consequently, the establishment of a <a href="New_world_order_(politics)" title="New world order (politics)">new world order</a> is imperative:

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<blockquote><p>One needs an exceptional stupidity even to question the urgency we are under to establish some effective World Pax, before gathering disaster overwhelms us. The problem of reshaping human affairs on a world-scale, this World problem, is drawing together an ever-increasing multitude of minds.</p></blockquote>

<p>Neither Christianity nor socialism can solve the World Problem. The solution is a modernized "World Knowledge Apparatus"—the World Encyclopedia—"a sort of mental clearing house for the mind, a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared".<sup id="cite_ref-WB38_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WB38-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 49">: 49 </span></sup> Wells thought that technological advances such as <a href="Microfilm" class="mw-redirect" title="Microfilm">microfilm</a> could be used 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 <i>any</i> book, <i>any</i> document, in an exact replica".<sup id="cite_ref-WB38_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WB38-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 54">: 54 </span></sup>

</p><p>In this lecture Wells develops the analogy of the encyclopedia to a brain, saying, "it would be a clearing house for universities and research institutions; it would play the role of a cerebral cortex to these essential ganglia".

</p><p>He mentions the <a href="International_Committee_on_Intellectual_Cooperation" title="International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation">International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation</a>, an advisory branch of the <a href="League_of_Nations" title="League of Nations">League of Nations</a>, and the 1937 <a href="World_Congress_of_Universal_Documentation" title="World Congress of Universal Documentation">World Congress of Universal Documentation</a> as contemporary forerunners of the world brain.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="A_Permanent_World_Encyclopedia">A Permanent World Encyclopedia</h3></div>

<p>This section was first published in <i><a href="Harper's_Magazine" title="Harper's Magazine">Harper's Magazine</a></i>, April 1937, and contributed to the new <i><a href="Encyclop%C3%A9die_fran%C3%A7aise" title="Encyclopédie française">Encyclopédie française</a></i>, August 1937.

</p><p>In this essay, Wells explains how current encyclopaedias have failed to adapt to both the growing increase in recorded knowledge and the expansion of people requiring information that was accurate and readily accessible. He asserts that these 19th-century encyclopaedias continue to follow the 18th-century pattern, organisation and scale. "Our contemporary encyclopedias are still in the coach-and-horse phase of development," he argued, "rather than in the phase of the automobile and the aeroplane".<sup id="cite_ref-WB38_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WB38-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 58">: 58 </span></sup>

</p><p>Wells saw the potential for world-altering impacts this technology could bring. He felt that the creation of the encyclopaedia could bring about the peaceful days of the past, "with a common understanding and the conception of a common purpose, and of a commonwealth such as now we hardly dream of".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Wells anticipated the effect and contribution that his World Brain would have on the <a href="University" title="University">university</a> system as well.<sup id="cite_ref-Rayward_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rayward-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 561">: 561 </span></sup> He wanted to see universities contributing to it, helping it grow, and feeding its search for holistic information. "Every university and research institution should be feeding it" (p. 14). Elsewhere Wells wrote: "It would become the logical nucleus of the world's research universities and post-graduate studies."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He suggested that the organization he was proposing "would outgrow in scale and influence alike any single university that exists, and it would inevitably take the place of the loose-knit university system of the world in the concentration of research and thought and the direction of the general education of mankind".<sup id="cite_ref-WB38_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WB38-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 95">: 95 </span></sup> In fact the new encyclopedism he was advocating was "the only possible method I can imagine, of bringing the universities and research institutions around the world into effective cooperation and creating an intellectual authority sufficient to control and direct collective life".<sup id="cite_ref-WB38_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WB38-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 48">: 48 </span></sup> Ultimately the World Encyclopaedia would be "a permanent institution, a mighty super-university, holding together, utilizing and dominating all of the teaching and research organizations at present in existence".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Speech_to_the_Congrès_Mondial_De_La_Documentation_Universelle">Speech to the Congrès Mondial De La Documentation Universelle</h3></div>

<p>This section provides a brief excerpt of Wells's speech at the <a href="World_Congress_of_Universal_Documentation" title="World Congress of Universal Documentation">World Congress of Universal Documentation</a>, 20 August 1937. He tells the participants directly that they are participating in the creation of a world brain. He says:

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<blockquote><p> I am speaking of a process of mental organisation throughout the world which I believe to be as inevitable as anything can be in human affairs. The world has to pull its mind together, and this is the beginning of its effort. The world is a Phoenix. It perishes in flames and even as it dies it is born again. This synthesis of knowledge is the necessary beginning to the new world.</p></blockquote>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Informative_Content_of_Education">The Informative Content of Education</h3></div>

<p>This section was delivered as the Presidential Address to the Educational Science Section of the <a href="British_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science" class="mw-redirect" title="British Association for the Advancement of Science">British Association for the Advancement of Science</a>, 2 September 1937.

</p><p>Wells expresses his dismay at the general state of public ignorance, even among the educated, and suggest that the Educational Science Section focus on the bigger picture:

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<blockquote><p>For this year I suggest we give the questions of drill, skills, art, music, the teaching of languages, mathematics and other symbols, physical, aesthetic, moral and religious training and development, a rest, and that we concentrate on the inquiry: What are we telling young people directly about the world in which they are to live?</p></blockquote>

<p>He asks how the "irreducible minimum of knowledge" can be imparted to all people within ten years of education—realistically, he says, amounting to 2400 hours of classroom instruction. He suggests minimizing the teaching of names and dates in British history and focusing instead on newly available information about <a href="Prehistory" title="Prehistory">prehistory</a>, early <a href="Civilisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Civilisation">civilisation</a> (without the traditionally heavy emphasis on <a href="Palestine_(region)" title="Palestine (region)">Palestine</a> and the <a href="Israelites" title="Israelites">Israelites</a>), and the broad contours of <a href="World_history_(field)" title="World history (field)">world history</a>. He suggests better education in <a href="Geography" title="Geography">geography</a>, with an inventory of the world's <a href="Natural_resources" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural resources">natural resources</a>, and a better curriculum in <a href="Money" title="Money">money</a> and <a href="Economics" title="Economics">economics</a>. He calls for a "modernised type of teacher", better paid, with better equipment, and continually updated <a href="Teacher_education" title="Teacher education">training</a>.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Influence">Influence</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1930s:_World_Congress_of_Universal_Documentation">1930s: World Congress of Universal Documentation</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="World_Congress_of_Universal_Documentation" title="World Congress of Universal Documentation">World Congress of Universal Documentation</a></div>

<p>One of the stated goals of this Congress, held in Paris, France, in 1937, was to discuss ideas and methods for implementing Wells's ideas of the World Brain. Wells himself gave a lecture at the Congress.<sup id="cite_ref-doccong_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-doccong-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p><a href="Reginald_Arthur_Smith" title="Reginald Arthur Smith">Reginald Arthur Smith</a> extended Wells's ideas in the book <i>A Living Encyclopædia: A Contribution to Mr. Wells's New Encyclopædism</i> (London: Andrew Dakers Ltd., 1941).

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1960s:_The_World_Brain_as_a_supercomputer">1960s: The World Brain as a supercomputer</h3></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="From_World_Library_to_World_Brain">From World Library to World Brain</h4></div>

<p>In his 1962 book <i>Profiles of the Future</i>, <a href="Arthur_C._Clarke" title="Arthur C. Clarke">Arthur C. Clarke</a> predicted that the construction of what H. G. Wells called the World Brain would take place in two stages. He identified the first stage as the construction of the <i>World Library</i>, which is basically Wells's concept of a universal encyclopaedia accessible to everyone from their home on <a href="Computer_terminal" title="Computer terminal">computer terminals</a>. He predicted this phase would be established (at least in the <a href="Developed_countries" class="mw-redirect" title="Developed countries">developed countries</a>) by the year 2000. The second stage, the <i>World Brain</i>, would be a <a href="Superintelligence" title="Superintelligence">superintelligent</a> <a href="Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">artificially intelligent</a> <a href="Supercomputer" title="Supercomputer">supercomputer</a> that humans would be able to mutually interact with to solve various world problems. The "World Library" would be incorporated into the "World Brain" as a subsection of it. He suggested that this supercomputer should be installed in the former <a href="War_room" class="mw-redirect" title="War room">war rooms</a> of the United States and the <a href="Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> once the superpowers had matured enough to agree to co-operate rather than conflict with each other. Clarke predicted the construction of the "World Brain" would be completed by the year 2100.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>In 1964, <a href="Eugene_Garfield" title="Eugene Garfield">Eugene Garfield</a> published an article in the journal <i><a href="Science_(journal)" title="Science (journal)">Science</a></i> introducing the <a href="Science_Citation_Index" class="mw-redirect" title="Science Citation Index">Science Citation Index</a>; the article's first sentence invoked Wells's "magnificent, if premature, plea for the establishment of a world information center", and Garfield predicted that the Science Citation Index "is a harbinger of things to come—a forerunner of the World Brain".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1990s:_World_Wide_Web_of_documents">1990s: World Wide Web of documents</h3></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="World_Wide_Web_as_a_World_Brain">World Wide Web as a World Brain</h4></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">World Wide Web</a></div>

<p><a href="Brian_R._Gaines" title="Brian R. Gaines">Brian R. Gaines</a> in his 1996 paper "Convergence to the Information Highway" saw the <a href="World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">World Wide Web</a> as an extension of Wells's "World Brain" that individuals can access using personal computers.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In papers published in 1996 and 1997 (that did not cite Wells), <a href="Francis_Heylighen" title="Francis Heylighen">Francis Heylighen</a> and <a href="Ben_Goertzel" title="Ben Goertzel">Ben Goertzel</a> envisaged the further development of the World Wide Web into a <a href="Global_brain" title="Global brain">global brain</a>, i.e. an intelligent network of people and computers at the planetary level.<sup id="cite_ref-Rayward_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rayward-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 558">: 558 </span></sup> The difference between "global brain" and "world brain" is that the latter, as envisaged by Wells, is centrally controlled,<sup id="cite_ref-Rayward_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rayward-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while the former is fully decentralised and <a href="Self-organization" title="Self-organization">self-organizing</a>.

</p><p>In 2001, Doug Schuler, a professor at <a href="Evergreen_State_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Evergreen State University">Evergreen State University</a>, proposed a worldwide <a href="Civic_intelligence" title="Civic intelligence">civic intelligence</a> network as the fulfillment of Wells's world brain. As examples he cited <a href="Sustainable_Seattle" title="Sustainable Seattle">Sustainable Seattle</a> and the "Technology Healthy City" project in Seattle.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Wikipedia_as_a_World_Brain">Wikipedia as a World Brain</h4></div>

<p>A number of commentators have suggested that Wikipedia represents the World Brain as described by Wells.<sup id="cite_ref-Reagle_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reagle-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 24">: 24 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Joseph_Reagle" title="Joseph Reagle">Joseph Reagle</a> has compared Wells's warning about the need to defend the World Encyclopedia from <a href="Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> with Wikipedia's "Neutral Point of View" norm:

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<blockquote><p>In keeping with the universal vision, and anticipating a key Wikipedia norm, H. G. Wells was concerned that his <i>World Brain</i> be an "encyclopedia appealing to all mankind", and therefore it must remain open to corrective criticism, be skeptical of myths (no matter how "venerated") and guard against "narrowing propaganda". This strikes me as similar to the pluralism inherent in the Wikipedia "Neutral Point of View" goal of "representing significant views fairly, proportionately, and without bias".<sup id="cite_ref-Reagle_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reagle-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 26">: 26 </span></sup></p></blockquote>

<ul><li><a href="Citizendium" title="Citizendium">Citizendium</a></li>

<li><a href="Collective_intelligence" title="Collective intelligence">Collective intelligence</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Encyclopedia_Galactica" title="Encyclopedia Galactica">Encyclopedia Galactica</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Jo%C3%ABl_de_Rosnay" title="Joël de Rosnay">Joël de Rosnay</a></li>

<li><a href="Noosphere" title="Noosphere">Noosphere</a></li>

<li><a href="Organizational_learning" title="Organizational learning">Organizational learning</a></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Forbin_Project" class="mw-redirect" title="The Forbin Project">The Forbin Project</a></i></li>

<li><a href="The_Library_of_Babel" title="The Library of Babel">The Library of Babel</a></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h2></div>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div>

<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFCollins1978" class="citation thesis cs1">Collins, Peter Michael Digby (1978). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/4621/"><i>The British Association for the Advancement of Science and public attitudes to science, 1919–1945</i></a> (Ph.D.). <a href="OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/855700170">855700170</a>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFGere2004" class="citation journal cs1">Gere, Charlie (June 2004). "Brains-in-vats, giant brains and world brains: the brain as metaphor in digital culture". <i>Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences</i>. <b>35</b> (2): <span class="nowrap">351–</span>366. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.shpsc.2004.03.008">10.1016/j.shpsc.2004.03.008</a>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFWells2021" class="citation book cs1">Wells, H. G. (2021) [1938]. <i>World Brain</i>. Cambridge, MA: <a href="MIT_Press" title="MIT Press">MIT Press</a>. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.7551%2Fmitpress%2F13630.001.0001">10.7551/mitpress/13630.001.0001</a>. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>9780262542562</bdi>. <a href="OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1204343654">1204343654</a>. <a href="S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:242738121">242738121</a>.</cite> New edition with a foreword by <a href="Bruce_Sterling" title="Bruce Sterling">Bruce Sterling</a> and introduction by <a href="Joseph_M._Reagle_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph M. Reagle Jr.">Joseph M. Reagle Jr.</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://reagle.org/joseph/2021/10/wells-reagle-2021-world-brain-ch1-intro.pdf">front matter and introduction</a>).</li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFMarien2007" class="citation journal cs1">Marien, Michael (October 2007). "The future of human benefit knowledge: notes on a World Brain for the 21st century". <i><a href="Futures_(journal)" title="Futures (journal)">Futures</a></i>. <b>39</b> (8): <span class="nowrap">955–</span>962. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.futures.2007.03.005">10.1016/j.futures.2007.03.005</a>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFTorres-Vargas2005" class="citation journal cs1">Torres-Vargas, Georgina Araceli (September 2005). "World Brain and Mundaneum: the ideas of Wells and Otlet concerning universal access". <i>VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems</i>. <b>35</b> (3): <span class="nowrap">156–</span>165. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1108%2F03055720510634207">10.1108/03055720510634207</a>.</cite></li>

<li>Rayward, W. Boyd (1999). "H.G. Wells's idea of a World Brain: A critical reassessment". <i>Journal of the American Society for Information Science</i>. <b>50</b> (7): 557–573. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(1999)50:7<557::aid-asi2>3.0.co;2-m.</li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div>

<ul><li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/worldbrain00wells/page/n5">World brain </a></i> Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran 1938 via <a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a> from the <a href="Thomas_Fisher_Rare_Book_Library" title="Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library">Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library</a> at the <a href="University_of_Toronto" title="University of Toronto">University of Toronto</a></li>

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</style><div id="H._G._Wells114" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="H._G._Wells_bibliography" title="H. G. Wells bibliography">Bibliography</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="The_Time_Machine" title="The Time Machine">The Time Machine</a></i> (1895)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Wonderful_Visit" title="The Wonderful Visit">The Wonderful Visit</a></i> (1895)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Island_of_Doctor_Moreau" title="The Island of Doctor Moreau">The Island of Doctor Moreau</a></i> (1896)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Wheels_of_Chance" title="The Wheels of Chance">The Wheels of Chance</a></i> (1896)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Invisible_Man" title="The Invisible Man">The Invisible Man</a></i> (1897)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_War_of_the_Worlds" title="The War of the Worlds">The War of the Worlds</a></i> (1898)</li>

<li><i><a href="When_The_Sleeper_Wakes" title="When The Sleeper Wakes">When The Sleeper Wakes</a></i> (1899)</li>

<li><i><a href="Love_and_Mr_Lewisham" title="Love and Mr Lewisham">Love and Mr Lewisham</a></i> (1900)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_First_Men_in_the_Moon" title="The First Men in the Moon">The First Men in the Moon</a></i> (1901)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Food_of_the_Gods_and_How_It_Came_to_Earth" title="The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth">The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth</a></i> (1904)</li>

<li><i><a href="Kipps" title="Kipps">Kipps</a></i> (1905)</li>

<li><i><a href="A_Modern_Utopia" title="A Modern Utopia">A Modern Utopia</a></i> (1905)</li>

<li><i><a href="In_the_Days_of_the_Comet" title="In the Days of the Comet">In the Days of the Comet</a></i> (1906)</li>

<li><i><a href="Tono-Bungay" title="Tono-Bungay">Tono-Bungay</a></i> (1909)</li>

<li><i><a href="Ann_Veronica" title="Ann Veronica">Ann Veronica</a></i> (1909)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_History_of_Mr_Polly" title="The History of Mr Polly">The History of Mr Polly</a></i> (1910)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Sleeper_Awakes" class="mw-redirect" title="The Sleeper Awakes">The Sleeper Awakes</a></i> (1910)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_New_Machiavelli" title="The New Machiavelli">The New Machiavelli</a></i> (1911)</li>

<li><i><a href="Marriage_(novel)" title="Marriage (novel)">Marriage</a></i> (1912)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Passionate_Friends%3A_A_Novel" title="The Passionate Friends: A Novel">The Passionate Friends</a></i> (1913)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Wife_of_Sir_Isaac_Harman" title="The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman">The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman</a></i> (1914)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_World_Set_Free" title="The World Set Free">The World Set Free</a></i> (1914)</li>

<li><i><a href="Bealby" title="Bealby">Bealby</a></i> (1915)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Research_Magnificent" title="The Research Magnificent">The Research Magnificent</a></i> (1915)</li>

<li><i><a href="Mr._Britling_Sees_It_Through" title="Mr. Britling Sees It Through">Mr. Britling Sees It Through</a></i> (1916)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Soul_of_a_Bishop" title="The Soul of a Bishop">The Soul of a Bishop</a></i> (1917)</li>

<li><i><a href="Joan_and_Peter" title="Joan and Peter">Joan and Peter</a></i> (1918)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Undying_Fire_(Wells_novel)" title="The Undying Fire (Wells novel)">The Undying Fire</a></i> (1919)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Secret_Places_of_the_Heart" class="mw-redirect" title="The Secret Places of the Heart">The Secret Places of the Heart</a></i> (1922)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Dream_(novel)" title="The Dream (novel)">The Dream</a></i> (1924)</li>

<li><i><a href="Christina_Alberta's_Father" title="Christina Alberta's Father">Christina Alberta's Father</a></i> (1925)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_World_of_William_Clissold" title="The World of William Clissold">The World of William Clissold</a></i> (1926)</li>

<li><i><a href="Meanwhile_(novel)" title="Meanwhile (novel)">Meanwhile</a></i> (1927)</li>

<li><i><a href="Mr._Blettsworthy_on_Rampole_Island" title="Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island">Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island</a></i> (1928)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Autocracy_of_Mr._Parham" title="The Autocracy of Mr. Parham">The Autocracy of Mr. Parham</a></i> (1930)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Bulpington_of_Blup" title="The Bulpington of Blup">The Bulpington of Blup</a></i> (1932)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come" title="The Shape of Things to Come">The Shape of Things to Come</a></i> (1933)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Croquet_Player" title="The Croquet Player">The Croquet Player</a></i> (1936)</li>

<li><i><a href="Brynhild_(novel)" title="Brynhild (novel)">Brynhild</a></i> (1937)</li>

<li><i><a href="Star_Begotten" title="Star Begotten">Star Begotten</a></i> (1937)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Camford_Visitation" class="mw-redirect" title="The Camford Visitation">The Camford Visitation</a></i> (1937)</li>

<li><i><a href="Apropos_of_Dolores" class="mw-redirect" title="Apropos of Dolores">Apropos of Dolores</a></i> (1938)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Brothers_(novel)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Brothers (novel)">The Brothers</a></i> (1938)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Holy_Terror_(Wells_novel)" title="The Holy Terror (Wells novel)">The Holy Terror</a></i> (1939)</li>

<li><i><a href="Babes_in_the_Darkling_Wood" class="mw-redirect" title="Babes in the Darkling Wood">Babes in the Darkling Wood</a></i> (1940)</li>

<li><i><a href="All_Aboard_for_Ararat" title="All Aboard for Ararat">All Aboard for Ararat</a></i> (1940)</li>

<li><i><a href="You_Can't_Be_Too_Careful" class="mw-redirect" title="You Can't Be Too Careful">You Can't Be Too Careful</a></i> (1941)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Nonfiction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Anticipations" title="Anticipations">Anticipations</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Certain_Personal_Matters" title="Certain Personal Matters">Certain Personal Matters</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Crux_Ansata" title="Crux Ansata">Crux Ansata</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Discovery_of_the_Future" title="The Discovery of the Future">The Discovery of the Future</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="An_Englishman_Looks_at_the_World" title="An Englishman Looks at the World">An Englishman Looks at the World</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Experiment_in_Autobiography" title="Experiment in Autobiography">Experiment in Autobiography</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="First_and_Last_Things" title="First and Last Things">First and Last Things</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Floor_Games" title="Floor Games">Floor Games</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Future_in_America" title="The Future in America">The Future in America</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="God_the_Invisible_King" title="God the Invisible King">God the Invisible King</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="In_the_Fourth_Year" title="In the Fourth Year">In the Fourth Year</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Little_Wars" title="Little Wars">Little Wars</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Mankind_in_the_Making" title="Mankind in the Making">Mankind in the Making</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Mind_at_the_End_of_Its_Tether" title="Mind at the End of Its Tether">Mind at the End of Its Tether</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Mr._Belloc_Objects_to_%22The_Outline_of_History%22" title="Mr. Belloc Objects to "The Outline of History"">Mr. Belloc Objects to "The Outline of History"</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="The_New_America%3A_The_New_World" title="The New America: The New World">The New America</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="The_New_World_Order_(Wells_book)" title="The New World Order (Wells book)">The New World Order</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="New_Worlds_for_Old_(Wells_book)" title="New Worlds for Old (Wells book)">New Worlds for Old</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Open_Conspiracy" title="The Open Conspiracy">The Open Conspiracy</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Outline_of_History" title="The Outline of History">The Outline of History</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Russia_in_the_Shadows" title="Russia in the Shadows">Russia in the Shadows</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Science_of_Life" title="The Science of Life">The Science of Life</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="A_Short_History_of_the_World_(Wells_book)" title="A Short History of the World (Wells book)">A Short History of the World</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Story_of_a_Great_Schoolmaster" title="The Story of a Great Schoolmaster">The Story of a Great Schoolmaster</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="This_Misery_of_Boots" title="This Misery of Boots">This Misery of Boots</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Travels_of_a_Republican_Radical_in_Search_of_Hot_Water" title="Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water">Travels of a Republican Radical in Search of Hot Water</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="War_and_the_Future" title="War and the Future">War and the Future</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Way_the_World_Is_Going" title="The Way the World Is Going">The Way the World Is Going</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Work%2C_Wealth_and_Happiness_of_Mankind" title="The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind">The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="A_Year_of_Prophesying" title="A Year of Prophesying">A Year of Prophesying</a></i></li></ul>

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<ul><li><i><a href="The_Country_of_the_Blind_and_Other_Stories" title="The Country of the Blind and Other Stories">The Country of the Blind and Other Stories</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Plattner_Story_and_Others" title="The Plattner Story and Others">The Plattner Story and Others</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Select_Conversations_with_an_Uncle" title="Select Conversations with an Uncle">Select Conversations with an Uncle</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="The_Stolen_Bacillus_and_Other_Incidents" title="The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents">The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Tales_of_Space_and_Time" title="Tales of Space and Time">Tales of Space and Time</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Twelve_Stories_and_a_Dream" class="mw-redirect" title="Twelve Stories and a Dream">Twelve Stories and a Dream</a></i></li></ul>

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<li>"<a href="The_Argonauts_of_the_Air" title="The Argonauts of the Air">The Argonauts of the Air</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="The_Beautiful_Suit" title="The Beautiful Suit">The Beautiful Suit</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="The_Chronic_Argonauts" title="The Chronic Argonauts">The Chronic Argonauts</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="The_Country_of_the_Blind" title="The Country of the Blind">The Country of the Blind</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="The_Crystal_Egg" title="The Crystal Egg">The Crystal Egg</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="A_Deal_in_Ostriches" title="A Deal in Ostriches">A Deal in Ostriches</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="The_Diamond_Maker" title="The Diamond Maker">The Diamond Maker</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="A_Dream_of_Armageddon" title="A Dream of Armageddon">A Dream of Armageddon</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Empire_of_the_Ants" title="Empire of the Ants">The Empire of the Ants</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="In_the_Abyss" title="In the Abyss">In the Abyss</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="The_Land_Ironclads" title="The Land Ironclads">The Land Ironclads</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Mr._Ledbetter's_Vacation" title="Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation">Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="The_Lord_of_the_Dynamos" title="The Lord of the Dynamos">The Lord of the Dynamos</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="The_Man_Who_Could_Work_Miracles_(short_story)" title="The Man Who Could Work Miracles (short story)">The Man Who Could Work Miracles</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="The_New_Accelerator" title="The New Accelerator">The New Accelerator</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="The_Pearl_of_Love" title="The Pearl of Love">The Pearl of Love</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="The_Plattner_Story" title="The Plattner Story">The Plattner Story</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="The_Queer_Story_of_Brownlow's_Newspaper" title="The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper">The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="The_Sea_Raiders" title="The Sea Raiders">The Sea Raiders</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="The_Stolen_Body" title="The Stolen Body">The Stolen Body</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="A_Story_of_the_Days_to_Come" title="A Story of the Days to Come">A Story of the Days to Come</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="A_Story_of_the_Stone_Age" title="A Story of the Stone Age">A Story of the Stone Age</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Triumphs_of_a_Taxidermist" title="Triumphs of a Taxidermist">Triumphs of a Taxidermist</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="The_Truth_About_Pyecraft" title="The Truth About Pyecraft">The Truth About Pyecraft</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="A_Vision_of_Judgment" title="A Vision of Judgment">A Vision of Judgment</a>"</li></ul>

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<ul><li><i><a href="Things_to_Come" title="Things to Come">Things to Come</a></i> (1936)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Man_Who_Could_Work_Miracles" title="The Man Who Could Work Miracles">The Man Who Could Work Miracles</a></i> (1937)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Political_views_of_H._G._Wells" title="Political views of H. G. Wells">Political views</a></li>

<li><a href="G._P._Wells" title="G. P. Wells">G. P. Wells</a></li>

<li><a href="Anthony_West_(author)" title="Anthony West (author)">Anthony West (son)</a></li>

<li><a href="Joseph_Wells_(cricketer)" title="Joseph Wells (cricketer)">Joseph Wells (father)</a></li>

<li><a href="Simon_Wells" title="Simon Wells">Simon Wells (great-grandson)</a></li>

<li><a href="H._G._Wells_Society" title="H. G. Wells Society">H. G. Wells Society</a></li>

<li><a href="H._G._Wells_(crater)" title="H. G. Wells (crater)">Lunar crater</a></li>

<li><i><a href="Time_After_Time_(1979_film)" title="Time After Time (1979 film)">Time After Time</a></i> (1979 film)</li></ul>

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