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===1930s: World Congress of Universal Documentation=== {{Main|World Congress of Universal Documentation}} One of the stated goals of this Congress, held in Paris, France, in 1937, was to discuss ideas and methods for implementing Wells's ideas of the World Brain. Wells himself gave a lecture at the Congress.<ref name=doccong>{{cite journal|title=Documentation Congress Step toward Making 'World Brain{{'-}}|journal=The Science News-Letter|date=9 October 1937|volume=32|issue=861|pages=228–9| jstor=3913334|doi=10.2307/3913334}}</ref> [[Reginald Arthur Smith]] extended Wells's ideas in the book ''A Living Encyclopædia: A Contribution to Mr. Wells's New Encyclopædism'' (London: Andrew Dakers Ltd., 1941).
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