World Brain 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.
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14 Facts About World Brain
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The problem of reshaping human affairs on a world-scale, this World Brain problem, is drawing together an ever-increasing multitude of minds.
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World Brain asserts that these 19th-century encyclopaedias continue to follow the 18th-century pattern, organisation and scale.
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World Brain 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".
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World Brain wanted to see universities contributing to it, helping it grow, and feeding its search for holistic information.
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World Brain tells the participants directly that they are participating in the creation of a world brain.
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World Brain 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.
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World Brain suggests minimizing the teaching of names and dates in British history and focusing instead on newly available information about prehistory, early civilisation, and the broad contours of world history.
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World Brain suggests better education in geography, with an inventory of the world's natural resources, and a better curriculum in money and economics.
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World Brain calls for a "modernised type of teacher", better paid, with better equipment, and continually updated training.
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World Brain identified the first stage as the construction of the World Library, which is basically Wells's concept of a universal encyclopaedia accessible to everyone from their home on computer terminals.
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World Brain predicted this phase would be established by the year 2000.
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The second stage, the World Brain, would be a superintelligent artificially intelligent supercomputer that humans would be able to mutually interact with to solve various world problems.
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World Brain suggested that this supercomputer should be installed in the former war rooms of the United States and the Soviet Union once the superpowers had matured enough to agree to co-operate rather than conflict with each other.
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