Mundaneum
The Shocking True Story of the Man who Created the Internet and the Man who Destroyed It
Published on 19. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-1-7394845-6-9 (ISBN)
Description
An account of information management pioneer Paul Otlet, creator of the Mundaneum global information retrieval system, and propagandist Hans Hagemeyer who was responsible for the project's eventual destruction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stirling
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7394845-6-9 (9781739484569)
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Person
Mel Croucher is the acknowledged founder of the British computer games industry. Originally an architect, he moved into gaming "to force my weird music on an unwilling public."Among his innovations, he pioneered the first radio broadcasts of computer software, the first interactive soap opera, the first real-world adventure quest, the first computer-generated movie, the first AI virtual companion and the first million-user viral marketing campaign.He is the author of text books, technical manuals, fiction and non-fiction, and over a thousand of his columns, investigations and cartoon strips have appeared in print over five decades.