The Manhattan Project

The amber liquid swirls in the glass, rye catches the light like neurons firing. In 1938, Wells proposed something he called the &ldquo;World Brain&rdquo; , a permanent encyclopedia that would grow and evolve, connecting all human knowledge into a living whole. &ldquo;This is no remote dream,&rdquo; he wrote, sitting in his study without the benefit of either computers or good bourbon. We can…