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The Informed Life

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Paul Lutney's 1934 Vision for the Internet

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.

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