From the world brain to the first transatlantic information dialogue

Using machines in information and documentation

Ostwald and combinatorics

Combinatorics does not only replace creative imagination,
but is superior to it

  • Julius Hanauer, first, who published the idea to use machines for information and documentation (according Erich Pietsch)

  • Inventing systematically

  • A theory of means of communication ("Verkehrsmittel")

  • Thinking machines - (User) Education through "intellectual machines"


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