H.G. Wells (1938), though never using the actual term knowledge management,
described his vision of the “World Brain,” which would allow the intellectual
organization of the sum total of our collective knowledge. The World
Brain would represent “a universal organization and clarification of knowledge
and ideas” (p. xvi). Wells anticipated the World Wide Web, albeit in a
utopic idealized manner, when he spoke of “this wide gap between . . . at
present unassembled and unexploited best thought and knowledge in the
world. . . . We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill”