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Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence – Essays on Artificial Intelligence and Human Destiny (Edge Question Series)
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Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia
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