Paul Lutney's 1934 Vision for the Internet

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Strathany Panitsi, a British librarian, recognized the need for new organizational systems to handle the overwhelming amount of books. However, Lutlay had a grander vision. He understood that books were just a transitional technology, and he wanted to explore ways to uncover the information within them and create connections between documents. He even foresaw the emergence of multimedia and imagined a global computer network that would eventually resemble the internet. Lutlay's forward-thinking ideas make him a remarkable and prescient thinker.

Alex Wright is the Head of User Experience at Google News. He’s also an author, and his most recent book, Informatica, is the second edition of Glut, his deep history of the information age. In this conversation, we discuss the history of information technologies and why learning about it matters to people who work in tech.

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